update author list in license for (JAL-826)

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / bin / Cache.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java b/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java
index ba1d0a8..63a3412 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/Cache.java
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /*
  * Jalview - A Sequence Alignment Editor and Viewer (Version 2.7)
- * Copyright (C) 2011 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
+ * Copyright (C) 2011 J Procter, AM Waterhouse, J Engelhardt, LM Lui, G Barton, M Clamp, S Searle
  * 
  * This file is part of Jalview.
  * 
@@ -278,6 +278,26 @@ public class Cache
       System.setProperty("http.proxyPort", getDefault("PROXY_PORT", null));
     }
 
+    // LOAD THE AUTHORS FROM THE authors.props file
+    try
+    {
+      String authorDetails = "jar:".concat(Cache.class.getProtectionDomain()
+              .getCodeSource().getLocation().toString()
+              .concat("!/authors.props"));
+
+      java.net.URL localJarFileURL = new java.net.URL(authorDetails);
+
+      InputStream in = localJarFileURL.openStream();
+      applicationProperties.load(in);
+      in.close();
+    } catch (Exception ex)
+    {
+      System.out.println("Error reading author details: " + ex);
+      applicationProperties.remove("AUTHORS");
+      applicationProperties.remove("AUTHORFNAMES");
+      applicationProperties.remove("YEAR");
+    }
+
     // FIND THE VERSION NUMBER AND BUILD DATE FROM jalview.jar
     // MUST FOLLOW READING OF LOCAL PROPERTIES FILE AS THE
     // VERSION MAY HAVE CHANGED SINCE LAST USING JALVIEW