Getting maven project version and artifact ID from pom while running in Eclipse

Question

I was looking up how to get the application name(artifact id) and version from maven pom or manifest when I came across this question Get Maven artifact version at runtime.<

Answer 1

An easy solution with maven 4 is now to add a VersionUtil static method in your package:

package my.domain.package;
public class VersionUtil {
  public static String getApplicationVersion(){
    String version = VersionUtil.class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion();
    return (version == null)? "unable to reach": version;
  }
}

The thing is you need this ´mave-war-plugin´ in the project's pom, saying you want to add addDefaultImplementationEntries:

    ${project.artifactId}
    
     ...
      
            maven-war-plugin
            3.2.2
            
                false
                
                    
                        true
                    
                
            
        
    ...

Then call the VersionUtil.getApplicationVersion() from some place in your code.