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

I would hand the .jsp the value of

String version = getClass().getPackage().getImplementationVersion();

that would look like 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT for instance.

If you are just getting nulls, you may need to add the classpath to the Manifest of the war with

    org.apache.maven.plugins
    maven-war-plugin
    2.5
    
        
            
                true
            
        
    

for the classloader to pick it up.