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Detecting JDK Version using ANT

2005-06-15       - By Ivan Ivanov
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Hello,

you can try with java.version property:

<project>
   <echo>$${java.version} is ${java.version}</echo>
   <echo>$${java.runtime.version} is
${java.runtime.version}</echo>
   <!-- Dumps all properties starting with "java" -->
   <echoproperties prefix="java"/>
</project>

Regards
Ivan

--- Zarar Siddiqi <zarar.siddiqi@(protected)> wrote:

> 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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