The version information associated with the JDK is currently scattered
all over, in the form of properties, environment variables, manifest file
entries, and hard coded strings. This has occurred as the JDK and
its various components have evolved, but this has become error prone and
we should probably think about coming up with a cleaner solution.

To see the current settings for some of this information, run
/java/jdk/bin/jdk-version <jdk_home> and to see where/how these values
are being set, check out the comments in the source file
/java/jdk/src/jdk-version/Versions.java .

We could just keep all this information in a file somewhere, making it
easy to change it, or we may want to define an API for this. Whatever
the solution, some things to keep in mind are that licensees need to
modify some subset of this information, but not all. And components
such as plugin and the ActiveX bridge (Packager) need to get
this information as well.

janet.koenig@Eng 2000-03-14

We should also make sure that this covers the hotspot workspace
roger.calnan@Eng 2000-03-15