web-app version in all app screens

[Prashant Neginahal <pr...@gmail.com>]

Hi,

There is requirement to display the webapp.war version in all
application screens. How does maven help on this?

Many Thanks.

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Re: web-app version in all app screens

[Stephen Connolly <st...@gmail.com>]

It doesn't.

You can use Maven to help get the application version into a property
file on the classpath of the webapp. (Just as you can use other build
tools... but it is trivially easy with Maven (as it does this by
default /META-INF/maven/groupId/artifactId/pom.properties there is a
property "version" in there automatically))

Perhaps the best way is to query the manifest of a key class in your
application and use its "Implementation-Version" as your application
version... that would be the most portable way of all (providing your
version number corresponds to the surprisingly flexible version number
format required by Implementation-Version

But as to displaying that version on every page in your
application.... that is down to you.

If I were working with a Facelets/JSF application I could just modify
the templates that all pages are generated from and I would be sorted.
 Other web application frameworks are similarly useful... if your app
is all custom .jsp pages, then you may be SOOL

On 8 December 2011 15:13, Prashant Neginahal <pr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There is requirement to display the webapp.war version in all
> application screens. How does maven help on this?
>
> Many Thanks.
>
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