It's news to me too (maybe it's an XML-land thing?)."This class implements the upcoming standard of having org.apache.project-name.Version.getVersion() be a standard way to get version information."
That's news to me. I suspect it is news to most. As far as I know, it may be someone's strawman and/or wishful thinking, but this is the first I have heard about it.
It also sounds pretty much redundant with the existing JDK mechanisms for version discovery (which are based on information in META-INF/MANIFEST.MF). In particular, check out the javadocs for java.lang.Package and the associated information on Package Version Identification in the JDK docs. See, for example:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/versioning/index.html
If your project is a good citizen about creating MANIFEST.MF files in your JARs, you get this stuff for free.
--- NoelCraig
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