Detecting JDK Version using ANT

Detecting JDK Version using ANT

Detecting JDK Version using ANT

2005-06-15 - By Zarar Siddiqi

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Hi,

Is there a clean way to detect what version of Java is being used when running
a build file?

Some possible solutions include:

1) parsing the JAVA_HOME variable to detect the version number
2) Checking the existence of a file which is specific to a version

Both methods are somewhat brittle.

Is there a sureshot way of knowing whether ANT is being invoked using Java 1.5
or not?

Thanks in advance,
Zarar

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