Hi Tom,
I filed it:
https://glassfish.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1030.
thanks,
-marina
Tom Ware wrote On 08/24/06 05:57,:
> Hi Marina,
>
> I think a dynamic solution is a great idea. I have been meaning to
> get in touch with the build folks to ask how we could do that, but just
> have not yet gotten around to it.
>
> -Tom
>
> Marina Vatkina wrote:
>
>
>>Tom,
>>
>>The version message printed by TopLink code is very useful to identify build
>>number (at least approx) without asking the user (when it's available of course
>>in the user's message). But I have some concerns about the process of
>>constructing this information.
>>
>>Does every checkin by you or your team updates values in the Version class?
>>If yes, we have a problem as we don't do it on our side. If no, when do you
>>choose to make the updates?
>>
>>Can we switch to a dynamic solution instead?
>>
>>In old cmp days we had such dynamic solution that now seems to populate the
>>date only (which can be good enough). The idea is to have a template file that
>>is part of the source tree, which at the build time is automatically converted
>>to a .properties file with whatever necessary substitutions are being done by
>>the build.xml (see "sys-properties-prepare" in cmp/support/sqlstore/build.xml).
>>Then the code reads the file on startup and populates static fields to be used
>>by the rest of the runtime.
>>
>>Do you see a problem with this solution?
>>
>>thanks,
>>-marina
>>
>>
>
>