BTW you can also write the version to the manifest and then use
class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion() like I did here:
https://github.com/ecki/et-otp/blob/663228f2b6ad7d3f20aad04ca5f675b49662a78c/src/main/java/net/eckenfels/etotp/GUI.java#L64
This only requires addDefaultImplementationEn
Hi Joseph!
Not really sure what you mean by "keep java's version in sync".
Since you said "-version option on my project", I am guessing you have
a CLI app and you want to report the version which you specify in your
pom.xml file.
Now to do that and have it working with your project, here are the
I'll just mention that I've used the file referenced in the StackOverflow
question, META-INF/maven/${groupId}/${artifactId}/pom.properties, before to
do something much like you describe, print my application version to the
log at startup.
It did not need any special configuration to appear, and on
Joseph,
you probably want to look into resource filtering and put a
corresponding placeholder into a properties file and read it as a
classpath resource from your artifact.
https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-resources-plugin/examples/filter.html
Cheers
--
Alexander Kriegisch
https://scrum-m
For obvious reasons, if would be nice if the -version option on my
project automatically reported the version I'd set in the pom.xml rather
than my trying to synchronize the two manually.
The best approaches I've found so far are in
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2712970/get-maven-artifact
