[java] What version of JBoss I am running?

(As asked in title:) How do I tell what version of JBoss I am running?

I am also curious what version of tomcat I am running. Does a specific version of JBoss correspond to a certain version of tomcat?

If it helps there is also a jar-versions.xml in my JBoss installation in JBoss root folder. This doesn't require you to wget or jar xvf.

E.g.

$  grep jboss-system.jar /opt/jboss-5.1.0.GA/jar-versions.xml | fold
  <jar name="jboss-system.jar" specVersion="5.1.0.GA" specVendor="JBoss (http://
www.jboss.org/)" specTitle="JBoss" implVersion="5.1.0.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_5_
1_0_GA date=200905221634)" implVendor="JBoss Inc." implTitle="JBoss [The Oracle]
" implVendorID="http://www.jboss.org/" implURL="http://www.jboss.org/" sealed="f
alse" md5Digest="c97e8a3dde7433b6c26d723413e17dbc"/>
$

You can retrieve information about the version of your JBoss EAP installation by running the same script used to start the server with the -V switch. For Linux and Unix installations this script is run.sh and on Microsoft Windows installations it is run.bat. Regardless of platform the script is located in $JBOSS_HOME/bin. Using these scripts to actually start your server is dealt with in Chapter 4, Launching the JBoss EAP Server.

Just found another way to know the jboss version, so pointing out here:

In Linux/Windows use --version parameter along with Jboss executable to know the Jboss Version

eg:

[immo@g012 bin]$  ./run.sh --version
========================================================================

  JBoss Bootstrap Environment

  JBOSS_HOME: /programs/jboss4.2-AES2.3Cert

  JAVA: /programs/java/jdk1.7.0_09/bin/java

  JAVA_OPTS: -server -Xms128m -Xmx512m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=3600000 

  CLASSPATH: /programs/jboss4.2-AES2.3Cert/bin/run.jar:/programs/java/jdk1.7.0_09/lib/tools.jar

=========================================================================

Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 8787
JBoss 4.0.4.GA (build: CVSTag=JBoss_4_0_4_GA date=200605151000)

Here JBoss 4.0.4.GA is the Jboss version

in windows this could be

run.bat --version

Also, in new versions of jboss the executable is standalone.sh / standalone.bat

Use the following command from Linux

find $JBOSS_HOME -name run.sh -exec {} -V \; | grep '^JBoss'

This URL (JMX-Console) should provide you the informations

http://localhost:8080/jmx-console/HtmlAdaptor?action=inspectMBean&name=jboss.system%3Atype%3DServer

The tomcat version is implied by the jboss server version.

EDIT:

A complete list of versions you find here VersionOfTomcatInJBossAS

Where you reach your JBoss depends on the interface it is bound, using -b hostname If you start using JBoss with -b 0.0.0.0 option. That way, you can access the system using localhost, machineName and even the IP address. By default it's localhost, if you use th -b option you need to replace localhost by yourhostname.

In your JBoss lib Directory:

• Open the file jboss-system.jar by example
• Extract the file MANIFEST.MF from the META-INF directory
• Open MANIFEST.MF with a text editor and then look at the property Specification-Version and Implementation-Version

/apps/jboss-eap-6.2/bin/standalone.sh -version

Sample output:

=========================================================================

  JBoss Bootstrap Environment

  JBOSS_HOME: /apps/jboss-eap-6.2

  JAVA: /apps/jdks/jdk_1.7/bin/java

  JAVA_OPTS:  -server -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Xms1303m -Xmx1303m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djboss.modules.system.pkgs=org.jboss.byteman -Djava.awt.headless=true

=========================================================================

21:07:20,380 INFO  [org.jboss.modules] (main) JBoss Modules version 1.3.3.Final-redhat-1
21:07:22,206 INFO  [stdout] (main) JBoss EAP 6.2.2.GA (AS 7.3.2.Final-redhat-2)

The version of JBoss should also be visible in the boot log file. Standard install would have that (for linux) in

/var/log/jboss/boot.log

$ head boot.log

08:30:07,477 INFO  [Server] Starting JBoss (MX MicroKernel)...
08:30:07,478 INFO  [Server] Release ID: JBoss [Trinity] 4.2.2.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_2_GA date=200710221139)
08:30:07,478 DEBUG [Server] Using config: org.jboss.system.server.ServerConfigImpl@4277158a
08:30:07,478 DEBUG [Server] Server type: class org.jboss.system.server.ServerImpl
08:30:07,478 DEBUG [Server] Server loaded through: org.jboss.system.server.NoAnnotationURLClassLoader
08:30:07,478 DEBUG [Server] Boot URLs:

so required info int the above case is

Release ID: JBoss [Trinity] 4.2.2.GA (build: SVNTag=JBoss_4_2_2_GA date=200710221139)

Realize this is an old thread but here are a couple other ways (works with EAP 6.4):

1. Use JBoss CLI (/opt/jboss/bin)

# jboss-cli.sh -c --controller=127.0.0.1:9999 'version' JBoss Admin Command-line Interface JBOSS_HOME: /opt/AAS/latest/jboss JBoss AS release: 7.5.14.Final-redhat-2 "Janus" JBoss AS product: EAP 6.4.14.GA

2. Inspect the identity.conf file

# more /opt/jboss/.installation/identity.conf patches= cumulative-patch-id=jboss-eap-6.4.14.CP installed-patches=jboss-eap-6.4.1.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.2.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.3.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.4.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.5.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.6.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.7.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.8.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.9.CP, jboss-eap-6.4.10.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.11.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.12.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.13.CP,jboss-eap-6.4.14.CP

If you know the location of installed jboss folder then simply open it and look for version.txt file.