Including the version in a Maven artifact

Thu, 27 Sep 2018 13:33:00 +0000

Recently I wanted to include the version of an artifact generated by a Maven build into a text file in that artifact. As Google and and good friends will help you with, I was pointed to [this article][1] that was exactly what I wanted.

Basically, create a /src/main/resources/version.txt file with the following content…

${project.version}

… then including the following snippet in your “build”…

<build>
 <resources>
 <resource>
 <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
 <filtering>true</filtering>
 <includes>
 <include>**/version.txt</include>
 </includes>
 </resource>
 <resource>
 <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
 <filtering>false</filtering>
 <excludes>
 <exclude>**/version.txt</exclude>
 </excludes>
 </resource>
 </resources>
</build>[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3532135/using-maven-to-output-the-version-number-to-a-text-file

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Including the version in a Maven artifact