Easier access to the Netty version identifier

[trustin]

As requested by Tim, I have just added a new class 'org.jboss.netty.util.Version', as described in the following JIRA page:

https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/NETTY-213

You might want to refer to my pom.xml to generate something similar for HornetQ. :)

[trustin]

I forgot to mention that this feature will be included in 3.1.3.GA which will be released pretty soon.

[ataylor]

I'm adding a log.info in the netty acceptor startup and a log.debug in the nettyconnector

[timfox]

We should add a log.warn if the netty version is not the expected netty version for the JBM release.

[ataylor]

should we tie a netty version to a HornetQ version? This would make it impossible for users to drop new versions of netty in forpatches etc, maybe allow a specific version or greater to be used. Also how would we specify the netty version that should be used for a release?

[timfox]

We don't want to tie JBM version to netty version for the reasons you mention, however a warning is useful so we can let users easily discover common errors due to using the wrong versions.

We could specify the expected netty version in the hornetq-version.properties file, and check it both on client and server side on when a connector/acceptor is created.

[ataylor]

Ok, i should be able to create this dynamically during the build from the netty Version class.

[timfox]

Not sure I follow, what are you intending to create?

[ataylor]

I meant update the netty version number in the hornetq-properties.xml file at build time rather than having to change it every time.

[timfox]

Is this done?

Is there a JIRA for it?

[ataylor]

yes its done, i'll add a JIRA so it is tracked.