I haven't been able to find an answer to this question.

Since hibernate just releases a hibernate2.jar, how can I go about, by just looking at the jar, which version it is in the 2.x.y line? I guess I could load it and turn on debug...but that seems like a bit of a pain.

Thanks,
Patrick

You should check the JIRA issues for anything, and if not then post a feature request.

Please don't. Look at net.sf.hibernate.Environment.

I think what he is trying to get at is that there is no way from the hibernate.jar file to determine the version given only the binary. I agree that there should be a way to get the version number by looking at the manifest file.

That would be great if I wanted to code up something and print out the version...hell I can get that by just loading up Hibernate and turning on some basic logging.

It would be nice, without having to write any code, to be able to tell exactly what version of hibernate I have sitting in front of me. Sure, the jar is called Hibernate2.jar, but there are a lot of versions of Hibernate2.

I don't necessarily know of the cleanest way to do this, but maybe a manifest entry, or have the build make the jar name Hibernate-full-version-info.jar . I'm sure that would upset others as well who are used to just dropping in the latest Hibernate2.jar and overwritting what was there. Surely there's a way to get this info in there.

We will make some changes to the build process, but this is not totally trivial right now.

Totally understand if this didn't even make it into Hibernate until 3.0...it would certainly be undependable in the 2.x line since it won't exist in every version. Just saying it would be a nice consideration. Thanks for considering it and hopefully it will come as a part of 3.0.

Patrick