Question

I’m trying to create a ‘skeleton’ framework of sorts for a basic java app.

One thing I’m looking to add is a version page/display that list the current framework/libs attached.

For example:

Skeleton version: 1.0.0
Spring: 2.5.6
Hibernate: Malbolge

The purpose of the Skeleton project was to make it very easy for a new developer to quickly start a robust app.
I figured the worst case scenario is that I could search through every framework jars manifest and use that… but that’s no fun…

Anyone have a different suggestion? This would be a no brainer if the project was going to use Maven… I could just parse the pom.xml or something to that extent…

I guess a more defined question is:

Given a folder of libs; is there a way to dynamically gather the jars/frameworks version # without touching the manifest?

Answer 1

You can get the Spring version using the SpringVersion class.

I had a code snippet in a previous question:

Need Spring version# – only have spring.jar file