Manifest files provide meta information about the application. It is located in the top-level directory. The file describes the project and contains meta data about the specific version. The format of the file is plain JSON, which is still human-readable while it also allows for processing by the qooxdoo build system.

• name (String, required)
  Name of the contribution. Identical to the top-level directory name.
• summary (String, required)
  Short summary about the project.
• description (String)
  Longer description about the project.
• keywords (String[])
  List of keywords (tagging, categories), to be used for searches.
• homepage (String)
  Contribution homepage.
• authors (Map[], required)
  Array of maps with the following keys:
  • name (String, required)
    Name of the author
  • email (String)
    email address of the author. Please use AT and DOT instead of @ and . as an anti-spam measure.
• license (String, required)
  License (e.g. LGPL/EPL, BSD, …)
• version (String, required)
  version string of this particular release. Identical to the version directory name, e.g. 0.2 or trunk.
• qooxdoo-versions (String[], required)
  List of qooxdoo versions that this contribution version is supposed to work with.
• namespace (String)
  Top-level namespace of the contribution. Required if the contribution contains JavaScript classes.
• resource-uri-setting (String)
  Name of the setting for the resource URI. By default the name of this setting is a concatination of the top-level namespace and .resourceUri (e.g. progressbar.resourceUri).

{
  "name" : "SkeletonWidget",
 
  "summary" : "A Sample widget.",
  "description": "This widget can be used as a blue print for other contributions",
  "keywords" : ["widget", "skeleton"],
  "homepage" : "http://contrib.qooxdoo.org/project/SkeletonWidget",
 
  "authors" : [
    {
      "name" : "",
      "email" : ""
    }
  ],
 
  "license" : "LGPL/EPL",    
  "version" : "0.1",
  "qooxdoo-versions": ["0.7", "trunk"],
 
  "namespace" : "skeletonwidget",
  "resource-uri-setting" : "skeletonwidget.resourceUri"
}