Wouldn't JSR 77 J2EEServer Managed Object's serverVersion and
serverVendor attributes not good enough?
regards
sankar
Ludovic Champenois wrote:
> kedar wrote:
>> Hi Cathy Mucci,
>>
>> The Version Command output should be an invariant. I don't
>> think the "output" of the version command is an interface that
>> you can rely on.
>>
>> So, it always better to rely on the "Version" class that we
>> have exposed. In your GlassFish installation, take a look at:
>> appserv-ext.jar:
>> com.sun.appserv.server.util.Version class. At the moment, you'll
>> need to do a javap on that to find out its methods.
> https://glassfish.dev.java.net/nonav/javaee5/api/s1as-javadocs/com/sun/appserv/server/util/Version.html
>
>
>
> but...
>> This class exposes various methods to get things like: full-version
>> (which asadmin displays), major version, minor version, build id etc.
>> I think you should rely on it.
>
> I remember that you need more than appserv-ext.jar jar in your
> classpath for EE detection, making this api not really stable as the
> output varies based on you class path...
>
> Unless I am wrong?
> Ludo
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kedar
>>
>> Cathy Mucci wrote:
>>>
>>> We are looking for ways to programatically determine the version of
>>> AppServer installed on various platforms/servers.
>>>
>>> Is the the output returned from the asadmin version command is
>>> parsable?
>>> Is it localized text? In other words, is there an option to guarantee
>>> the output text that can be parsed by a script and work in any locale?
>>>
>>> Your feedback is appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Cathy Mucci
>>>
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