Re: Jakarta-Oro version...

I wrote:
>The version is included in the manifest information in the jar file
>in the specification-Version property under the org/apache/oro section.
...
>assembled.  Off the top of my head I can't tell you how to get at it
>from a program, but the functionality exists.

Here's the manifest from a build sitting on my hard drive.  Worst
case you can extract the version with a regular expression :)

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.5.3 
Created-By: 1.4.2-b28 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)

Name: org/apache/oro
Specification-Title: Jakarta ORO
Specification-Version: 2.0.8
Specification-Vendor: Apache Software Foundation
Implementation-Title: org.apache.oro
Implementation-Version: 2.0.8 2004-02-14 01:17:05
Implementation-Vendor: Apache Software Foundation

If anyone wants to offer reasons for adding an org.apache.oro.Version
class, we can discuss it on oro-dev.  The one reason I can think of
is to work around the the presence of older jakarta-oro jars in some
of the major application servers that conflict with more recent versions
used by application developers.  But there's a lot of software like that
and I can't imagine that it's practical to test the version of each
package and use a different classloader when the version isn't acceptable.

daniel