How to tell Maven to update manifest's Bundle-Version? - eclipse

Question

I'm building Eclipse's plugins using Maven, and I'm looking for a way to tell Maven to update the Bundle-Version in the META-INF\MANIFEST.MF file.
The trick is, I need a clean way to do it. So that further colleagues (or even me in some months/years) may not break the final automated build.
Here is what I tried :
Using "Bundle-Version: ${project.version}" in the MANIFEST.MF
On a maven point-of-view, this is working.
BUT my Eclipse project is constantly displaying an error : The specified version does not have the correct format (major.minor.micro.qualifier)
Using the above but in another META-INF folder (named META-INF-MAVEN) that is used by maven instead of the original :
<resources>
<resource>
<directory>META-INF-MAVEN</directory>
<targetPath>META-INF</targetPath>
<filtering>true</filtering>
</resource>
</resources>
This is still "working", but the needed duplication of MANIFEST.MF file is far away from what I'm looking for. This is a large trap for future errors, like editing the original MANIFEST.MF file and forgetting the maven one, resulting in a bugged release.
Using org.apache.maven.plugins to add the Bundle-Version tag at compile-time from the pom file :
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<archive>
<manifestFile>target/classes/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
<manifestEntries>
<Bundle-Version>${project.version}</Bundle-Version>
</manifestEntries>
</archive>
</configuration>
</plugin>
This is the most promising way, BUT it only works if the original MANIFEST.MF does not have a Bundle-Version line.
The result is, again, an error within the Eclipse project.
And so, here I am, asking for any idea.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Following solution finds the Bundle-Version: line in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF and replaces it with the Maven project version. replacer maven plugin was used for that but there are certainly other maven plugins that can do the same work like find-and-replace-maven-plugin.
<plugin>
<groupId>com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin</groupId>
<artifactId>replacer</artifactId>
<version>1.5.3</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<id>update-manifest-version</id>
<phase>process-resources</phase>
<goals>
<goal>replace</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<file>${basedir}/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</file>
<regex>true</regex>
<replacements>
<replacement>
<token>Bundle-Version: .*</token>
<value>Bundle-Version: ${project.artifact.selectedVersion.majorVersion}.${project.artifact.selectedVersion.minorVersion}.${project.artifact.selectedVersion.incrementalVersion}.qualifier
</value>
</replacement>
</replacements>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>