ActiveMq v 5.10.1
I downloaded ActiveMq. Went to its lib folder. Selected and unzipped
activemq-web-5.10.1 and
activemq-kahadb-store-5.10.1
jars.
Went inside the respective META-INF folders and noticed this file named as DEPENDENCIES.
What is this DEPENDENCIES file ?
It seems related to dependency Management.
What does it do?
After searching with various different keywords, I was eventually able to figure out what is this DEPENDENCIES file.
It comes from Apache-Resource-Bundle. See Here http://maven.apache.org/apache-resource-bundles/
It is basically a way to ensure that any jar created by Apache is having some standard. For example, it includes License, Disclaimers.
The DEPENDENCIES file simple is a list of Dependencies on which the jar depends in pretty format.
It is not at all involved in dependency management. It is simply of packaging purposes.