How can I in a jsp page get maven project version number?

Question

I am working on a java web application, managed by maven2. From time to time, we did some changes, and want to do new releases, of course with new version number. In the hom

Answer 1

It make a while this post have been created, but I hope it would help. It will get properties generated from Maven :

<%@ page import="java.util.*"%>
<%
    java.io.InputStream inputStream = getServletContext().getResourceAsStream("/META-INF/maven/com.filhetallard.fam.ged/famdox/pom.properties");
    Properties mavenProperties= new Properties();
    mavenProperties.load(inputStream );
    String version = (String) mavenProperties.get("version");
    String name = (String) mavenProperties.get("artifactId");

%>
 
    

Unfortunately, there is some drawbacks :

• you had to explicitely write groupId and artifactId in your code
• if you deploy your web-app directly from target/ to your server, it won't find the file because this one is in maven-archiver directory, not in META-INF, before packaging.

Regards.