I used to use the Oracle Netbeans for developing a few simple programs. I have
a need to go back and modify one of those programs, so I just installed Apache
Netbeans v19 along with jdk 11. Netbeans comes up into an editor window, but I
do not see how to load, or modify/compile my
Thanks! Definitely better than using the lastModified() date on the File I was
using :-)
With respect to the build modification, I’m old school and still stuck on ant.
But many thanks for the ImplementationVersion suggestion.
tom
> On Sep 19, 2023, at 2:03 PM, Laszlo Kishalmi
> wrote:
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Well, if using a home brew solution, I may rely on the hidden gem of:
MyClass.class.getPackage().getImplementationVersion()
If you provide a nice MANIFEST.MF with your jar that should work.
The original problem would still persist, in that case you need to
configure your build system.
If tha
Hi Laszlo,
My J2SE application is installed by a jpackage-created installer on
mac/linux/windows and can be either a client or a server. The application,
upon startup, checks if there’s a new version of the app jar available on a
server instance and, if so, downloads it so the next time the app
You probably do not want to do such a thing. Is there a more high level
of use case why you would get the date of a jar?
Usually depending on file dates would make you application very brittle,
which would work on development, but when put into production, could
lead hours of debugging, whit s
Hi,
My application has a bit of code that tries to do something based on the build
date of the jar file. To get the jar file, it does something like this:
File jarFile = new
File(Startup.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation().toURI());
This works fine when the applic
