Getting application version from pom

Question

I have a rest endpoint used to return information about application (so far only app version) But so far this info is hardcoded, and it\'s pretty easy to forget to change it

Answer 1

There is amazing project named Appinfo, please use it and enjoy! (It has an ugly page, I know - but it works :)

AppInfo allows to automatically feed your application with a current version number, build date or build number.

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Also excellent Spring Boot Actuator provides feature named Info Endpoint which can publish version information to web or REST.

By default the Actuator adds an /info endpoint to the main server. It contains the commit and timestamp information from git.properties (if that file exists) and also any properties it finds in the environment with prefix "info".