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+/* ====================================================================
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+==================================================================== */
+
+package org.apache.poi;
+
+/**
+ * Administrative class to keep track of the version number of the 
+ *  POI release.
+ *
+ * This class implements the upcoming standard of having 
+ *  org.apache.project-name.Version.getVersion() be a standard 
+ *  way to get version information.
+ */
+public class Version {
+	private static final String VERSION_STRING = "@VERSION@";
+	private static final String RELEASE_DATE = "@DSTAMP@";
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the basic version string, of the form
+	 *  nn.nn(.nn)
+	 */
+	public static String getVersion() {
+		return VERSION_STRING;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Return the date of the release / build
+	 */
+	public static String getReleaseDate() {
+		return RELEASE_DATE;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Name of product: POI
+	 */
+	public static String getProduct() {
+		return "POI";
+	}
+	/**
+	 * Implementation Language: Java
+	 */
+	public static String getImplementationLanguage() {
+		return "Java";
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Prints the version to the command line
+	 */
+	public static void main(String[] args) {
+		System.out.println(
+			"Apache " + getProduct() + " " +
+			getVersion() + " (" + getReleaseDate() + ")"
+		);
+	}
+}