hildren in
      the index.  Doesn't have any effect if <em>index</em> is
      false.<br/>
      Sun's jar implementation used to skip the META-INF directory and
      Ant followed that example.  The behavior has been changed with
      <a href="http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4408526">Java
      5</a>.  In order to avoid problems with Ant generated jars on
      Java 1.4 or earlier Ant will not include META-INF unless
      explicitly asked to.<br/>
      <em>Ant 1.8.0</em> - Defaults t