From 3035d3a7c871b99524ea346039c68a145e5d960c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Diggory <mdiggory@atmire.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2010 00:35:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Handle Exeptions to eliminate issues when testing / debugging
 in IDE's and allow application to run with a default fversion if pom cannot
 be determined.,

git-svn-id: http://scm.dspace.org/svn/repo/dspace/trunk@4743 9c30dcfa-912a-0410-8fc2-9e0234be79fd
---
 .../src/main/java/org/dspace/app/util/Util.java | 17 +++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/util/Util.java b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/util/Util.java
index f5934e3bbd..d416a0fd87 100644
--- a/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/util/Util.java
+++ b/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/util/Util.java
@@ -346,14 +346,23 @@ public class Util {
      * @return string containing version, e.g. "1.5.2"; ends in "-SNAPSHOT" for development versions.
      */
     public static String getSourceVersion()
-        throws IOException
     {
         if (sourceVersion == null)
         {
-            InputStream cis = Util.class.getResourceAsStream
-                ("/META-INF/maven/org.dspace/dspace-api/pom.properties");
             Properties constants = new Properties();
-            constants.load(cis);
+
+            try
+            {
+                InputStream cis = Util.class.getResourceAsStream
+                    ("/META-INF/maven/org.dspace/dspace-api/pom.properties");
+
+                constants.load(cis);
+            }
+            catch(Exception e)
+            {
+                log.error(e.getMessage(),e);
+            }
+
             sourceVersion = constants.getProperty("version", "none");
         }
         return sourceVersion;