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Determine a the JDK version used to make a JAR file

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Maybe there’s already a tool to do this, but a quick Google search only yield this tip.  So, I made a quick little JAR reader to fetch the estimated version from the manifest: import java.util.*; import java.util.jar.*; import java.io.*;   /* * Sends the "estimated" JDK version (expected to be in the jar manifest "Created-By" [...]