The individual "Specification-_____" entries are redundant if you set addDefaultSpecificationEntries to true. ______________________________ Brian M. Carr Identity and Access Management ITS Applications University of Texas at Austin V: 512-232-6419 F: 512-471-5746 [email protected]
On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Michael O'Cleirigh wrote:
> Hi Shahzad,
>
> There is a way to write the project version as a manifest property when
> the jar is created by maven.
>
> I saw this example today which would be how to do it:
>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
> <configuration>
> <archive>
> <index>true</index>
> <manifest>
> <addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
> true
> </addDefaultSpecificationEntries>
> <addDefaultImplementationEntries>
> true
> </addDefaultImplementationEntries>
> </manifest>
> <manifestEntries>
> <Specification-Title>${project.name}</Specification-Title>
> <Specification-Version>${project.version}</Specification-Version>
> <Implementation-Title>${project.name}</Implementation-Title>
> <Implementation-Version>${project.version} ${buildNumber} -
> ${user.name}</Implementation-Version>
> <SCM-Revision>${buildNumber}</SCM-Revision>
> <SCM-url>${scm.url}</SCM-url>
> </manifestEntries>
> </archive>
> </configuration>
> </plugin>
> <plugin>
>
> Checkout the SpringVersion class on how you can access the
> Implementation-Version manifest property inside your code:
>
> public class SpringVersion {
>
> /**
> * Return the full version string of the present Spring codebase,
> * or <code>null</code> if it cannot be determined.
> * @see java.lang.Package#getImplementationVersion()
> */
> public static String getVersion() {
> Package pkg = SpringVersion.class.getPackage();
> return (pkg != null ? pkg.getImplementationVersion() : null);
> }
>
> }
>
> Hope this is useful for you,
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like the ability to read the project's version number from pom in my
>> java code as I need to insert that version number in the text file I
>> generate as a result of my code. I am NOT writing a maven plugin but a
>> standalone java project that uses maven as a build/dependency system
>>
>> At this point, I can only think of one way of doing that and that is using
>> the properties-maven-plugin to output the<properties> section from the pom
>> into a text file and in my<properties> seciton I reference the project's
>> version as ${project.version}
>>
>> Can you suggest or think of a better solution?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> --------------------------------------------
>> Shahzad Qureshi
>> Systems Analyst/Programmer
>> Applications Directorate | La direction générale des applications
>> Chief Information Officer Branch | Direction générale du dirigeant principal
>> de l'information
>> Environment Canada | Environnement Canada
>> [email protected]
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>>
>>
>>
>
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