Maven and Git providing build into at run-time

[Ron Wheeler]

An interesting article about how git and Maven can be used to
automatically make the build revision and other info available at
run-time for logging or display in an "About" display.

http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/spring-framework/spring-from-the-trenches-returning-git-commit-information-as-json/

Not a compelling reason to move to Maven or git but a nice addition to
OFBiz to make support and bug reporting a bit easier.

Also just a nice bit of reading if you enjoy reading about clever
programming.

Ron

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[Adam Heath-2]

On 04/24/2015 07:45 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
> An interesting article about how git and Maven can be used to
> automatically make the build revision and other info available at
> run-time for logging or display in an "About" display.
>

The top-level build.xml has a rule to update the svn build revision;
this number is monotomically increasing.  A git based $revhash isn't, so
there's a little bit of information lost there.  But I think that's minor.

> http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/spring-framework/spring-from-the-trenches-returning-git-commit-information-as-json/ 
>
>
> Not a compelling reason to move to Maven or git but a nice addition to
> OFBiz to make support and bug reporting a bit easier.
>
> Also just a nice bit of reading if you enjoy reading about clever
> programming.
>
> Ron
>

[Ron Wheeler]

The key thing to me is that if a person reports a bug with the product
identification on the screen or sends a log, can you find the version of
the code that was used to build their application.

Ron

On 24/04/2015 10:39 AM, Adam Heath wrote:

>
> On 04/24/2015 07:45 AM, Ron Wheeler wrote:
>> An interesting article about how git and Maven can be used to
>> automatically make the build revision and other info available at
>> run-time for logging or display in an "About" display.
>>
>
> The top-level build.xml has a rule to update the svn build revision;
> this number is monotomically increasing.  A git based $revhash isn't,
> so there's a little bit of information lost there.  But I think that's
> minor.
>
>> http://www.petrikainulainen.net/programming/spring-framework/spring-from-the-trenches-returning-git-commit-information-as-json/ 
>>
>>
>> Not a compelling reason to move to Maven or git but a nice addition
>> to OFBiz to make support and bug reporting a bit easier.
>>
>> Also just a nice bit of reading if you enjoy reading about clever
>> programming.
>>
>> Ron
>>
>
>

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Ron Wheeler
President
Artifact Software Inc
email: [hidden email]
skype: ronaldmwheeler
phone: [phone], ext 102