Bug 35583

Summary:	Offer Version class (like other Apache projects)
Product:	POI	Reporter:	M.H. <mhilpert>
Component:	POI Overall	Assignee:	POI Developers List <dev>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.5-FINAL
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000

Description M.H. 2005-07-01 17:49:39 UTC

I wonder how to get the POI Version info during runtime. Other Apache projects 
like avalon, batik, xalan, xerces, xmlcommons all have a Version class for this.

Comment 1 Nick Burch 2008-07-10 16:11:22 UTC

We'd probably want to have this auto-generated by the jar task, so that it's always updated.

I'll look at adding this in soon

Comment 2 Nick Burch 2008-07-12 12:37:51 UTC

org.apache.poi.Version is now generated when producing the jars. It includes xalan-like methods for querying the version and build date

Comment 3 M.H. 2008-07-24 06:00:29 UTC

Can't find it in the online javadocs or the trunk site (http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/src/) ... is it already available?

Comment 4 Nick Burch 2008-07-24 10:14:51 UTC

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/src/resources/version/Version.java.template

It gets generated on the fly by the jar ant task, which populates the template with the current version. So, it'll only be there once you run the jar task