Re: [aspectj-dev] Feature Request, Version class

[Wes Isberg <wes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is implemented, though not as usable as a
straight Version class with component strings.

The way in Java 1.4 is to use the version information 
associated with the package by the manifest:

-------- PackageTest.java
import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint;

public class PackageTest {

    public static void main (String[] args) {
        Package lang = JoinPoint.class.getPackage();
        System.out.println("impl version: " 
              + lang.getImplementationVersion());
    } 
}
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For JDK 1.3, you can inspect the manifest manually, as 
the compiler does (see AjBuildManager.checkRtJar(..)).

fyi, the tools version is in org.aspectj.bridge.Version.

If you still want a new Version class in the runtime
package, submit a feature request to 

  http://dev.eclipse.org/bugs

(Since there's no runtime component, use the compiler)

Wes

P.S. - I'll add this to the FAQ.

Arno Schmidmeier wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> It's late here now, so I might have missed something.
> I like to have a version API in the runtime.
> Just a simple class called Version, with some static final fields indicating
> the AspectJ-Version.
> 
> One for the major number,
> One for the minor release number,
> one for some build identificator.
> one with the official version name as string
> kind regards
>    Arno
> 
> P.S. I am missing the AspectJ-API doc section, has it been dropped?
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