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+/*
+* Copyright (c) 2007-2008 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+* All rights reserved.
+* This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+* under the terms of the License "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+* which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+* at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+*
+* Initial Contributors:
+* Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+*
+* Contributors:
+*
+* Description: 
+*
+*/
+ 
+package com.nokia.ant.util; 
+
+import org.apache.tools.ant.Project;
+/**
+ * Utility class to read property value, if property is not defined it will raise an exception.
+ *
+ */
+public final class Helper
+{
+    private Helper() { }
+    
+    public static String getProperty(Project project, String val) throws Exception
+    {
+        String prop = project.getProperty(val);
+        if (prop == null)
+            throw new Exception(val + " not defined");
+        return prop;
+    }
+}
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