file not found manifest.mf eclipse

Question

I'm using the following configuration :

Eclipse Indigo
Maven 2
ClearCase (like SVN and CVS)

and every time I want to run an application within eclipse a popup appears telling me that a Problem has occured : File not found : ...\target\classes\META-INF\MANIFEST.MF.

Sorry for the late response, actually no, neither in ClearCase nor in Eclipse! — Adil, May 07 '12 at 08:30
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9810236/difference-maven-build-in-same-pom-file — Dali, Apr 23 '13 at 16:28

score 77 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '14 at 20:36

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Go to the root of the project. Wherever the pom is located then try to do a

 mvn eclipse:clean

Then refresh your projects and see where that leaves you

answered Mar 28 '14 at 20:36

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`Deleting file: .project Deleting directory: .settings` I guess somehow that completely destroyed it for me. – Thomas Weller Sep 09 '15 at 09:18
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after the clean, you should run mvn eclipse:eclipse too – Tacsiazuma Jul 18 '16 at 13:37
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`mvn eclipse:clean` will remove the Maven Nature for an eclipse project. – Salsero69 Feb 27 '18 at 22:21

score 29 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 16 '17 at 09:03

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Right click on project then click on maven then do update project.It work for me.

answered Jan 16 '17 at 09:03

sitaram chhimpa

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This is the one that worked for me: `Eclipse > Project > Maven > Update project`. – paulsm4 Dec 06 '18 at 23:59
Thanks @paulsm4 Eclipse > Project > Maven > Update project Works for me. – tesoner Jul 30 '21 at 19:52

score 12 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 10 '20 at 10:43

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I had the similar issue. What I did is:

Right click on project > Maven > Disable Maven Nature
Right click on project > configure> Convert to maven project

Error gone

edited Mar 10 '20 at 10:43

Christian Vincenzo Traina

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answered May 09 '17 at 06:30

rajeev pani..

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Eclipse/maven were wrong. It's astounding this errors continue being there for years and years. – Jorge.V Jul 08 '19 at 06:22

score 8 · Answer 4 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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If you're also using Maven and sometimes compiling outside of Eclipse, it could be removing Eclipse's manifest, and Eclipse won't recognize the manifest that external Maven creates.

TL;DR Uncheck "Maven Archiver generates files under the build directory" in Window > Preferences > Maven > WTP.

Read more in @cosjav's answer on another question.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Apr 11 '16 at 19:26

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score 4 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 11 '17 at 12:17

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Right click on project -> Maven -> Update

DEBUG or RUN the server in order to fetch the recently created war file.

Make sure to check "Force update snapshots/releases" while doing MAVEN UPDATE

answered Dec 11 '17 at 12:17

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Oct 17 '16 at 09:24

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clean all (involved) projects and refresh your open projects in your workspace

answered Oct 17 '16 at 09:24

Erdinc Ay

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 06 '18 at 13:22

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I know this question has already been answered. After several tries, what worked for me was expanded my project in eclipse, right clicked on target directory and clicked refresh and that has been working ever since. Hope this works for someone if all the above fails.

answered Feb 06 '18 at 13:22

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I followed the above , it worked for me .i have scenario like I am creating jar from one project and refering the same in another web project as dependency . Tomcat failed to start with concurrent Exception and saxparser not created error. – anavaras lamurep Aug 13 '19 at 21:28

score 1 · Answer 8 · answered Aug 29 '16 at 17:06

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All. For me, there was an error in pom.xml. I formatted the code (Ctrl+Shift+F) and the error is gone. After that I was able to run the application.

answered Aug 29 '16 at 17:06

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score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Oct 31 '14 at 15:17

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Close the eclipse and start the eclipse again. This will refresh the projects and problem will be solved.

answered Oct 31 '14 at 15:17

Aruna

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Not necessary to close Eclipse, just refresh the project. – heroin Aug 01 '15 at 14:19

score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Nov 02 '17 at 04:23

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I had the same problem but it got resolved just disturb the formatting of

POM.xml

and press

ctrl+a and ctrl+shift+f then save the document

answered Nov 02 '17 at 04:23

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score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Feb 27 '19 at 05:46

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Right click on project then select maven and then click on Update project after select the project name and update it'll be work fine.

answered Feb 27 '19 at 05:46

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How your answer is different from the existing posted answer for e.g.: https://stackoverflow.com/a/41672688/2987755, if it is same, please do not post it. – dkb Feb 27 '19 at 06:26

score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Jan 10 '21 at 11:10

This issue appeared to me while I updated eclipse [updated to Eclipse 2020-12 (4.18)] as my project was open in eclipse. Then I closed my CLI (as I was running mvn test command), closed the project in eclipse and restarted my eclipse. Thereafter the issue was gone. Hopefully this will resolve your issue too.

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