Programatically finding the Hadoop version code is using

In porting a program from Hadoop 0.2 to 1.0 I had the problem that the code might
care about the current Hadoop version and there was minimal documentation on
how this might be accomplished
 The package org.apache.hadoop has an annotation shiowing the version but I had nver worked with
package annotations before -
The following code creates an enum with Hadoop major versions and determines which one is in use

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package org.systemsbiology.hadoop;

import org.apache.hadoop.*;

/**
 * org.systemsbiology.hadoop.HadoopMajorVersion
 *   enumeration of major Hadoop versions
 * @author Steve Lewis
 * @date 19/05/13
 */
public enum HadoopMajorVersion {
    Version0("0.2"), Version1("1."), Version2("2.");

    private final String m_StartText;

    private HadoopMajorVersion(String startText) {
        m_StartText = startText;
    }

    public String getStartText() {
        return m_StartText;
    }

    /**
     * figure out the major hadoop version by looking at     HadoopVersionAnnotation in
     * package
     * @return !null majoe version
     * @throws  IllegalStateException if presented with a version it does not understand
     */
    public static HadoopMajorVersion getHadoopVersion() {
        // force the class loader to load a class in the package so we can read the package
        Class hadoopVersionAnnotation = HadoopVersionAnnotation.class; // make cure the class loader know about packages
        Package aPackage = Package.getPackage("org.apache.hadoop");
        HadoopVersionAnnotation annotation = (HadoopVersionAnnotation) aPackage.getAnnotation(HadoopVersionAnnotation.class);
        String version = annotation.version();
        HadoopMajorVersion[] versions = values();
        for (HadoopMajorVersion v : versions) {
             if(version.startsWith(v.getStartText()))
                 return v;
        }
        throw new IllegalStateException("Unknown Hadoop version " + version);
    }
}