diff --git a/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/jaxb/pom/PomUtils.java b/dependency-check-core/src/main/java/org/owasp/dependencycheck/jaxb/pom/PomUtils.java
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+/*
+ * This file is part of dependency-check-core.
+ *
+ * Licensed 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.
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 Jeremy Long. All Rights Reserved.
+ */
+package org.owasp.dependencycheck.jaxb.pom;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.logging.Logger;
+import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
+import javax.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
+import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException;
+import javax.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
+import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser;
+import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory;
+import javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource;
+import org.owasp.dependencycheck.analyzer.exception.AnalysisException;
+import org.owasp.dependencycheck.jaxb.pom.generated.Model;
+import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
+import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
+import org.xml.sax.XMLFilter;
+import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author jeremy
+ */
+public class PomUtils {
+
+    /**
+     * The logger.
+     */
+    private static final Logger LOGGER = Logger.getLogger(PomUtils.class.getName());
+
+    /**
+     * The unmarshaller used to parse the pom.xml from a JAR file.
+     */
+    private Unmarshaller pomUnmarshaller;
+
+    public PomUtils() {
+        try {
+            //final JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance("org.owasp.dependencycheck.jaxb.pom.generated");
+            final JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Model.class);
+            pomUnmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();
+        } catch (JAXBException ex) { //guess we will just have a null pointer exception later...
+            LOGGER.log(Level.SEVERE, "Unable to load parser. See the log for more details.");
+            LOGGER.log(Level.FINE, null, ex);
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Reads in the specified POM and converts it to a Model.
+     *
+     * @param file the pom.xml file
+     * @return returns a
+     * @throws AnalysisException is thrown if there is an exception extracting or parsing the POM
+     * {@link org.owasp.dependencycheck.jaxb.pom.generated.Model} object
+     */
+    public Model readPom(File file) throws AnalysisException {
+        Model model = null;
+        try {
+            final FileInputStream stream = new FileInputStream(file);
+            final InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(stream, "UTF-8");
+            final InputSource xml = new InputSource(reader);
+            final SAXSource source = new SAXSource(xml);
+            model = readPom(source);
+        } catch (SecurityException ex) {
+            final String msg = String.format("Unable to parse pom '%s'; invalid signature", file.getPath());
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, msg);
+            LOGGER.log(Level.FINE, "", ex);
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        } catch (IOException ex) {
+            final String msg = String.format("Unable to parse pom '%s'(IO Exception)", file.getPath());
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, msg);
+            LOGGER.log(Level.FINE, "", ex);
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        } catch (Throwable ex) {
+            final String msg = String.format("Unexpected error during parsing of the pom '%s'", file.getPath());
+            LOGGER.log(Level.WARNING, msg);
+            LOGGER.log(Level.FINE, "", ex);
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        }
+        return model;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Retrieves the specified POM from a jar file and converts it to a Model.
+     *
+     * @param source the SAXSource input stream to read the POM from
+     * @return returns the POM object
+     * @throws AnalysisException is thrown if there is an exception extracting or parsing the POM
+     * {@link org.owasp.dependencycheck.jaxb.pom.generated.Model} object
+     */
+    public Model readPom(SAXSource source) throws AnalysisException {
+        Model model = null;
+        try {
+            final XMLFilter filter = new MavenNamespaceFilter();
+            final SAXParserFactory spf = SAXParserFactory.newInstance();
+            final SAXParser sp = spf.newSAXParser();
+            final XMLReader xr = sp.getXMLReader();
+            filter.setParent(xr);
+            final JAXBElement<Model> el = pomUnmarshaller.unmarshal(source, Model.class);
+            model = el.getValue();
+        } catch (SecurityException ex) {
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        } catch (ParserConfigurationException ex) {
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        } catch (SAXException ex) {
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        } catch (JAXBException ex) {
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        } catch (Throwable ex) {
+            throw new AnalysisException(ex);
+        }
+        return model;
+    }
+}