How do I know what version of servlet-api.jar I have?

Question

I downloaded a copy of servlet-api.jar from java2s.com. How do I know what version it is? There\'s no reference on the site.

EDIT

Ah. Apo

Answer 1

you can get it from META-INF, you can explore the content of jar file using win rar or such archiving utils something like.

Name: javax/servlet/
Specification-Title: Java API for Servlets
Specification-Version: 2.4  

I personally prefer maven repo to download jar from.

Answer 2

It's basically inside your JAR's MANIFEST file under /META-INF/MANIFEST.MF:

Name: javax/servlet/
Specification-Title: Java API for Servlets
Specification-Version: 3.0
Specification-Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Implementation-Title: javax.servlet
Implementation-Version: 3.0.FR
Implementation-Vendor: Apache Software Foundation

Answer 3

use the below code snippet :

<%= session.getServletContext().getMajorVersion() %>.
<%= session.getServletContext().getMinorVersion() %>

Answer 4

you can extract the MANIFEST.MF from the META-INF directory of your jar file by using

jar xf servlet-api.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

the manifest for version 2.4 that comes with tomcat looks like this for example

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.2
Created-By: 1.4.2_06-b03 (Sun Microsystems Inc.)

Name: javax/servlet/
Specification-Title: Java API for Servlets
Specification-Version: 2.4
Specification-Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Implementation-Title: javax.servlet
Implementation-Version: 2.4.public_draft
Implementation-Vendor: Apache Software Foundation

Answer 5

for followers, if it's in a jnlp distro, there may be an accompanying "version.xml" file that tells you what versions each jar is respectively.