On Nov 17, 2007, at 6:33 PM, Patrick Lacour wrote:
To optimize plug-ins management in a app I wrote,
I have a class-member "versionDate". But I forgot
always to update this variable, when I modify a plug-in.
Were it possible to find a member "compilation date"
on a Class, or to find this by parsing directly the
compiled-code ? File systems "modification date" is
not reliable, since it could be altered by packaging or
multiple copying...
I searched but found nothing.
This must be Java 1.1 compatible...
Assuming it's Mac you could assume javac in the classpath and create
a class with the current date hard coded on the fly, I believe javac
has been system classpath going back to pre-OS X 1.1 MRJ days.
Or you could serialize a object with the date and try to change that
when you compile your plugin somehow.
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