programatically get the version of AEM inside a servlet

Hello everyone,

Thank you Sham and smacdonald2008 for the quick response. I tried out Sham suggestion first (cause that was the shorter one :P) and that worked. Here is what I added to my servlet

@Reference private ProductInfoProvider productInfo;

and then referred the version like

productInfo.getProductInfo().getShortVersion();

Thanks again,

best,

kevin

One area to explore is using MBEAN app logic to get information from CQ. See this AEM topic that talks about MBEAN:

http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/cq/5-5/developing/jmx-integration.html

We have a community article that shows you how to use MBEAN from within an OSGi service operation:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/aem-first-components1.html

This article shows how to use MBEAN within an OSGi to count stale workflows - replace that MBEAN logic with the MBEAN logic you need to address your use case. Something like:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1270173/accessing-a-remote-mbean-server

Update: You can get crx version using jmx - use the Product API to get server version.