Get Java application server name and version

Question

I am writing a Web application with Java, and this WAR application may be deployed to different application servers, such as Tomcat/JBoss/Jetty/Weblogic.

For diagnos

Answer 1

I don't think there is an easy way to do this, but I know you can identify tomcat from checking the System environment properties

 -- listing properties --
 java.util.logging.config.file=/home/willie/.netbeans/7.0/apache-tom...
 user.dir=/home/willie/apache-tomcat-7.0.14/bin
 java.runtime.version=1.6.0_26-b03
 java.awt.graphicsenv=sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment
 java.endorsed.dirs=/home/willie/apache-tomcat-7.0.14/end...
 os.arch=amd64
 java.io.tmpdir=/home/willie/.netbeans/7.0/apache-tom...
 java.naming.factory.url.pkgs=org.apache.naming
 os.name=Linux
 sun.jnu.encoding=UTF-8
 java.library.path=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre/...
 tomcat.util.scan.DefaultJarScanner.jarsToSkip=bootstrap.jar,commons-daemon.jar,tomc...
 java.specification.name=Java Platform API Specification
 java.class.version=50.0
 sun.management.compiler=HotSpot 64-Bit Tiered Compilers
 os.version=2.6.38-8-generic
 user.home=/home/willie
 user.timezone=Africa/Johannesburg
 catalina.useNaming=true
 java.awt.printerjob=sun.print.PSPrinterJob
 java.specification.version=1.6
 file.encoding=UTF-8
 catalina.home=/home/willie/apache-tomcat-7.0.14
 user.name=willie
 java.class.path=/home/willie/apache-tomcat-7.0.14/bin...
 java.naming.factory.initial=org.apache.naming.java.javaURLContext...
 sun.security.krb5.debug=false
 package.definition=sun.,java.,org.apache.catalina.,org.a...
 java.vm.specification.version=1.0
 sun.arch.data.model=64
 java.home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre
 sun.java.command=org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap...
 catalina.base=/home/willie/.netbeans/7.0/apache-tom...
 file.separator=/
 java.vendor.url.bug=http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport...
 common.loader=${catalina.base}/lib,${catalina.base}..

you can check for tomcat/jetty/jboss... specific entries and determine the version and server by that means