[AMQ-1903] Add a Version class to easily output the version of ActiveMQ

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.4.0
• Patch Info: Patch Available
• Assignee: Bruce Snyder
• Reporter: Bruce Snyder
• Created: 20/Aug/08 18:12
• Updated: 23/Apr/10 15:54
• Resolved: 23/Apr/10 15:54

Description

I've found that in some environments version numbers are stripped from jar files making it difficult to determine the version of ActiveMQ someone is running. So I created a little Version class that reads properties from a file that is created by the build process. Then you just execute the main method in the Version class to get the following project output:

Apache ActiveMQ
  Project Version: 5.2-SNAPSHOT
  Build Timestamp: 2008.08.20 11:39:47 MDT
      Java Vendor: Apple Inc.
     Java Version: 1.5.0_13-119
  OS Architecture: i386
          OS Name: Mac OS X
       OS Version: 10.5.4

The only thing missing is the SVN revision number. That's more difficult to add.