diff --git a/jar/plugin.jelly b/jar/plugin.jelly
index a5c55ad0..ee2f12ff 100644
--- a/jar/plugin.jelly
+++ b/jar/plugin.jelly
@@ -9,47 +9,7 @@
   xmlns:resources="resources"
   xmlns:util="jelly:util"
   xmlns:doc="doc"
-  xmlns:m="maven"
-  xmlns:define="jelly:define"
-  xmlns:velocity="jelly:velocity"
-  >
-
-
- 
-  
-  <define:taglib uri="manifest">
-  
-  <!--
-     |    
-     | @destFile
-     |
-     -->
-    <define:tag name="create-file">                  
-    
-    <j:set 
-        var="templatePath" 
-        value="${pom.getPluginContext('maven-jar-plugin').getVariable('plugin.dir')}/plugin-resources/templates"/>
-      
-    <j:set 
-        var="mainclass" 
-        value="${$pom.getPluginContext('maven-java-plugin').getVariable('maven.jar.mainclass')}"/>
-    
-    <j:set 
-        var="addExtension" 
-        value="${pom.getPluginContext('maven-jar-plugin').getVariable('${maven.jar.manifest.extensions.add')}"/>
-    
-       
-    
-      <ant:echo>Creating MANIFEST file:${destFile}</ant:echo>
-
-      <velocity:merge
-        name="${destFile}"
-        basedir="${templatePath}"
-        template="manifest.vm"/>
-    </define:tag> 
-    
-  </define:taglib>
- 
+  xmlns:m="maven">
 
   <!-- ================================================================== -->
   <!-- J A R                                                              -->
diff --git a/jar/src/plugin-resources/templates/manifest.vm b/jar/src/plugin-resources/templates/manifest.vm
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e24569a..00000000
--- a/jar/src/plugin-resources/templates/manifest.vm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-Built-By="${user.name}
-Created-By=Apache Jakarta Maven
-Package=${pom.package}
-Build-Jdk=${java.version}
-Extension-Name=${pom.artifactId}
-Specification-Version=${pom.specificationVersion}
-Specification-Vendor=${pom.organization.name}
-Specification-Title=${pom.shortDescription}
-Implementation-Version=${pom.currentVersion}
-Implementation-Vendor=${pom.organization.name}
-Implementation-Vendor-Id=${pom.organization.identifier}
-
-#if(${mainclass})
-Main-Class=${mainclass}
-#end
-        
-#if( ${addExtension})
-  #foreach($artifact in $project.artifacts)
-    #set($extensionList =  $artifact.artifactId)
-  #end
-Extension-List  ${extensionList}
-  #foreach($artifact in $project.artifacts)
-${dep.artifactId}-Extension-Name${dep.artifactId}
-${dep.artifactId}-Implementation-Version${dep.version}
-${dep.artifactId}-Implementation-URLhttp://www.ibiblio.org/maven${artifact.urlPath}
-  #end
-#end