Java: Finding out Dependency Version of Non-Maven

Question

I am presently dealing with mavenizing our Java-projekts. I got the jars and the source but no where is listed which dependency version they are using.

I already tried to find some help here but unfortunatly I couldn't.

Greetings

Answer 1

This is a tedious task that I remember well. You can try the following:

1. If you are lucky, there is a META-INF\\maven\\ directory inside the jar. Then you can grab the GAV from them.

2. You can also take the SHA1 checksum and search for it in Maven repositories (these often have a search function for checksums)

3. You can use the MANIFEST.MF . Implementation-Version is a good point to look for.

4. You can compare the classes to the classes of various artifacts from MavenCentral to figure out which is the most similar.