Description: Restores the backward compatibility of PropertyUtils
 by removing the IOException on the loadProperties methods
Author: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
Forwarded: not-needed
--- a/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/PropertyUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/codehaus/plexus/util/PropertyUtils.java
@@ -34,29 +34,44 @@
 {
 
     public static Properties loadProperties( final URL url )
-        throws IOException
     {
         if ( url == null )
         {
             throw new NullPointerException( "url" );
         }
 
-        return loadProperties( url.openStream() );
+        try
+        {
+            return loadProperties( url.openStream() );
+        }
+        catch ( IOException e )
+        {
+            // ignore
+        }
+
+        return null;
     }
 
     public static Properties loadProperties( final File file )
-        throws IOException
     {
         if ( file == null )
         {
             throw new NullPointerException( "file" );
         }
 
-        return loadProperties( new FileInputStream( file ) );
+        try
+        {
+            return loadProperties( new FileInputStream( file ) );
+        }
+        catch ( IOException e )
+        {
+            // ignore
+        }
+
+        return null;
     }
 
     public static Properties loadProperties( final InputStream is )
-        throws IOException
     {
         InputStream in = is;
         try
@@ -73,10 +88,16 @@
 
             return properties;
         }
+        catch ( IOException e )
+        {
+            // ignore
+        }
         finally
         {
             IOUtil.close( in );
         }
+
+        return null;
     }
 
 }