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[dev-200503141900, JDK 1.5.0_02] Let's suppose I have this trivial "project": ProjectWithManifest |- src/some_packages_with_sources |- manifest.mf I was happy compiling and jarring this project from cmd line, since it's really simple. Then I wanted to create NetBeans project from ex. sources from this project and put all project metadata to ProjectWithManifest folder. BUT project wizard tells me on the second panel that it cannot create project if the manifest is already there. We need to handle existing manifests better than refusing to create the project. User could import the manifest or something like that.
See UI Spec: http://projects.netbeans.org/buildsys/j2se-project-ui-spec-promoe.html#Step_2_New_Java_Project_with The j2seproject creates its own manifest this will rewrite your manifest, it can be changed that the manifest will not be created if it already exists.