Getting Geronimo version on the command line

[Jacek Laskowski <jl...@apache.org>]

Hi,

I've come across a file that I didn't know what it is for - 
kernel/src/java/org/apache/geronimo/kernel/Version. It looks like it was 
meant to provide information about the Kernel version. The module - 
kernel - depends on two geronimo-specs. There's also  the GBean - 
system/src/java/org/apache/geronimo/system/serverinfo/ServerInfo that 
provides the information. It relies on the ServerConstants class of the 
same package. During the build (see maven.xml of the system module) the 
file - org/apache/geronimo/system/serverinfo/geronimo-version.properties 
- is created and populated with a necessary data. The file is then read 
by ServerConstants.

I think kernel module should provide information about itself. Unless 
I'm mistaken it's decided to minimize the dependencies of kernel as much 
as possible, thus the two spec deps.

Should Version be implemented similarly to ServerConstants and 
ServerConstants be removed? SystemInfo could then read the version 
information from Kernel module.

We should also create the main method of Version to let people find out 
what Kernel (and Geronimo in general) they work with.

Suggestions?

Jacek

Re: Getting Geronimo version on the command line

[Dain Sundstrom <ds...@gluecode.com>]

Well, the plan was to move ServerInfo to Kernel module, but I never got 
to it.  We were also going to make ServerInfo a magic attribute since 
it is used everywhere.

-dain

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On Jan 2, 2005, at 3:24 PM, Jacek Laskowski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've come across a file that I didn't know what it is for - 
> kernel/src/java/org/apache/geronimo/kernel/Version. It looks like it 
> was meant to provide information about the Kernel version. The module 
> - kernel - depends on two geronimo-specs. There's also  the GBean - 
> system/src/java/org/apache/geronimo/system/serverinfo/ServerInfo that 
> provides the information. It relies on the ServerConstants class of 
> the same package. During the build (see maven.xml of the system 
> module) the file - 
> org/apache/geronimo/system/serverinfo/geronimo-version.properties - is 
> created and populated with a necessary data. The file is then read by 
> ServerConstants.
>
> I think kernel module should provide information about itself. Unless 
> I'm mistaken it's decided to minimize the dependencies of kernel as 
> much as possible, thus the two spec deps.
>
> Should Version be implemented similarly to ServerConstants and 
> ServerConstants be removed? SystemInfo could then read the version 
> information from Kernel module.
>
> We should also create the main method of Version to let people find 
> out what Kernel (and Geronimo in general) they work with.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Jacek