Finding the Eclipse Version Number

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I have posted how to find it in Eclipse Gallileo  but if anyone has information on older versions feel free to post it below

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In Eclipse Gallileo   The about page  Help -  About Eclipse  has some icons towards the bottom of the dialogue  This should include two which are the plain Eclipse icon  Select the one with tooltip  Eclipse org   Eclipse has many components  each of which has its own version number  The core is the Eclipse Platform

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There is a system property eclipse buildId  for example  for Eclipse Luna  I have 4 4 1 M20140925-0400 as a value there    I m not sure in which version of Eclipse did this property become available   Also  dive right in and explore all the available system properties -- there is quite a bit of information available under eclipse    os   osgi   and org osgi   namespaces     UPDATE  After experimenting with different Eclipse versions  it seems that eclipse buildId system property is not the way to go  For example  on Eclipse Luna 4 4 0  it gives the result of 4 4 2 M20150204-1700 which is obviously incorrect   I suspect eclipse buildId system property is set to the version of org eclipse platform plugin  Unfortunately  this does not  always  give the correct result  However  good news is that I have a solution with working code sample which I will outline in a separate answer

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For Eclipse Kepler  there is no Help   About Eclipse but I found this works   Eclipse   About Eclipse

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Here is a working code snippet that will print out the full version of currently running Eclipse  or any RCP-based application    String product   System getProperty  eclipse product    IExtensionRegistry registry   Platform getExtensionRegistry    IExtensionPoint point   registry getExtensionPoint  org eclipse core runtime products    Logger log   LoggerFactory getLogger getClass     if  point    null      IExtension   extensions   point getExtensions      for  IExtension ext   extensions        if  product equals ext getUniqueIdentifier             IContributor contributor   ext getContributor          if  contributor    null            Bundle bundle   Platform getBundle contributor getName             if  bundle    null              System out println  bundle version      bundle getVersion                                     It looks up the currently running  product  extension and takes the version of contributing plugin   On Eclipse Luna 4 4 0  it gives the result of 4 4 0 20140612-0500 which is correct

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For Eclipse Java EE IDE - Indigo  Help   About Eclipse   Eclipse org  third from last   In the  About Eclipse Platform  locate Eclipse Platform and you ll have the version beneath the Version Column   Hope this helps J2EE Indigo Users

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1 - Open Eclipse IDE  2 - Press  Alt   H 3 - Use keyboard arrows to go dwn the list 4 - Select About Eclipse IDE tab

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Update September 2012    MRT points out in the comments that  Eclipse Version  question references a  eclipseproduct in the main folder  and it contains   name Eclipse Platform id org eclipse platform version 3 x 0   So that seems more straightforward than my original answer below   Also  Neeme Praks mentions below that there is a eclipse configuration config ini which includes a line like   eclipse buildId 4 4 1 M20140925-0400   Again easier to find  as those are Java properties set and found with System getProperty  eclipse buildId       Original answer  April 2009   For Eclipse Helios 3 6  you can deduce the Eclipse Platform version directly from the About screen  It is a combination of the Eclipse global version and the build Id     Here is an example for Eclipse 3 6M6  The version would be  3 6 0 v201003121448  after the version 3 6 0 and the build Id I20100312-1448  an Integration build from March 12th  2010 at 14h48  To see it more easily  click on  Plugin Details  and sort by Version     Note  Eclipse3 6 has a brand new cool logo     And you can see the build Id now being displayed during the loading step of the different plugin

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if you want to access this programatically  you can do it by figuring out the version of eclipse plugins org eclipse platform  plugin      String platformFile    lt the above file gt     actually directory  versionPattern   Pattern compile    d     d     d    Matcher m   versionPattern matcher platformFile   return m group

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I think  the easiest way is to read readme file inside your Eclipse  directory at path eclipse readme eclipse readme    At the very top of this file it clearly tells the version number   For My Eclipse Juno  it says version as Release 4 2 0

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Based on Neeme Praks  answer  the below code should give you the version of eclipse ide you re running within  In my case  I was running in an eclipse-derived product  so Neeme s answer just gave me the version of that product  The OP asked how to find the Eclipse version  whih is what I was after  Therefore I needed to make a couple of changes  leading me to this                 Attempts to get the version of the eclipse ide we re running in          return the version  or null if it couldn t be detected              static Version getEclipseVersion             String product    quot org eclipse platform ide quot           IExtensionRegistry registry   Platform getExtensionRegistry            IExtensionPoint point   registry getExtensionPoint  quot org eclipse core runtime products quot            if  point    null                IExtension   extensions   point getExtensions                for  IExtension ext   extensions                    if  product equals ext getUniqueIdentifier                           IContributor contributor   ext getContributor                        if  contributor    null                            Bundle bundle   Platform getBundle contributor getName                             if  bundle    null                                return bundle getVersion                                                                                                      return null         This will return you a convenient Version  which can be compared thus      private static final Version DESIRED MINIMUM VERSION   new Version  quot 4 9 quot      other constructors are available     boolean haveAtLeastMinimumDesiredVersion           Version thisVersion   getEclipseVersion            if  thisVersion    null                  we might have a problem                     returns a positive number if thisVersion is greater than the given parameter  desiredVersion          return thisVersion compareTo DESIRED MINIMUM VERSION   gt   0

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