Question

I am creating Java components through a maven build. I would like to have JMX bean for them to output the svn revision and the branch and perhaps the checkout and build date (so monitoring tool can keep a look at it)

Any suggestions how to do this. I guess I would need some sort of SVN hooks for this.

Answer 1

You could add the svn:keywords Property to your source file.
Example:

$> svn propset svn:keywords "Id Revision" MyClass.java

Inside your MyClass.java:

private static final string svn_id = "$Id$";
private static final string svn_rev = "$Revision$";

The result will look like this on each commit:

private static final string svn_id = "$Id: MyClass.java 123 2012-01-04 13:36:23Z bk $";
private static final string svn_rev = "$Revision: 123 $";