Find version of IDEA at runtime (from the current application )

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Yeikel
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Hi team, 

Are you aware of any reliable method to identify the version of IDEA at runtime from the current application that is being executed? 

I'd like to be able to validate that my users are using newer versions of the IDE while running my application 

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Jacky Liu
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Can you provide more info about your application? Is it a standard Java/Spring console application run with Maven/Gradle under IDEA?
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Yeikel
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it is a standard Maven Java  application (not Spring). The application is launched using a Run Configuration passing a custom Main class

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Jacky Liu
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It's not directly supported as the launched application use a seperated JVM process. You may use some JVM API to get the PID of IDEA then check the system properties, take https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/19464-jvms-manager 's source code as an good example, check this file https://github.com/marcelkliemannel/intellij-jvms-manager-plugin/blob/main/src/main/kotlin/dev/turingcomplete/intellijjvmsmanagerplugin/process/CollectJvmProcessNodesTask.kt :

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