Build and Version Numbering for Java Projects (ant, cvs, hudson)

Question

What are current best-practices for systematic build numbering and version number management in Java projects? Specifically:

• How to manage build numbers sy

Answer 1

You may also want to take a look at BuildNumber Maven plugin and Ant task in one jar found at http://code.google.com/p/codebistro/wiki/BuildNumber. I tried to make it simple and straightforward. It is a very small jar file that only depends on command line Subversion installed.