Posted by philjord on Dec 20, 2016; 8:02pm
URL: https://forum.jogamp.org/Java3D-Version-detection-tp4037543p4037544.html

VirtualUniverse provides this via the getProperties() method

So
    String versionString = (String) VirtualUniverse.getProperties().get("j3d.version");
    System.out.println("versionString " +versionString);

Will output something like

versionString 1.7.0_pre2

Note that output is for the 1.7.0 version, which is simplified a little.

If you wrap the VirtualUniverse is a try catch for ClassNotFoundException that will tell you if they have the Java3D jars on the classpath, obviously.

For more info see
https://github.com/hharrison/java3d-core/blob/master/src/javax/media/j3d/VirtualUniverse.java#L552-L582
and
https://github.com/hharrison/java3d-core/blob/master/build-tools/VersionInfo.java#L225