Can values defined in MANIFEST.MF be accessed programmatically?

Question

Can I access the values defined in a java manifest from code?

Answer 1

Use following way to detect External Jar/SDK MANIFEST.MF Info. We could use this info for detecting Jar version etc. Use http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/jar/Manifest.html

  public void getSDKInfo() {
    Package pkg = Manifest.class.getPackage();
    String specTitle = pkg.getSpecificationTitle();
    String vendor = pkg.getSpecificationVendor();
    String version = pkg.getSpecificationVersion();
   }