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When an user has an enterprise application project with some web/ejb modules which contains libraries, then, when the EAR project is built, some Class-path element for these librarieas are generated during the build. User cannot add these elements by hand because they are replaced with the generated ones during the build. The problem is caused by an ant task <manifest/> which with its attribute update set to true merges an existing manifest with new entries. However if there is an attribute in the existing manifest file and the some attribute is about to be added into the old one is replaced.
Created attachment 20918 [details] A mail thread with user who has this problem.
This issue should be adressed in next release. Not time for this now.
Not easy to fix - I would probably have to create a custom task for merging the manifest items.
Sounds like an enhancement request, not a DEFECT. Changing to ENHANCEMENT.
J2EE team support ends, thus returning the issue back.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss