Need to have the manifest generated data moved deeper inside of the jar

Due to a design issue outside of my control, the MANIFEST.MF file populated by the Maven Archiver plugin (inside of Maven jar plugin) is overwritten.

Can I:

1. move the file further down into the jar (i.e. from /META-INF to /src/home or something)
2. Populate a different file with the contents that would normally go into MANIFEST.mf (i.e. src/home/something.txt)

I've tri开发者_JAVA技巧ed to change the <manifestFile> property but that just merges the manifest from that location to the /META-INF location.

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I don't really get the point - that's not a MANIFEST.MF anymore - but if you move the contents to, say src/main/resources/src/home/something.txt, src/home/something.txt will end up in the jar. Unless I misunderstood something, this is what you asked for. If it isn't, please clarify.