diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 37cf2ca..af61c9d 100755
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,34 @@
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
   </properties>
 
+  <licenses>
+    <license>
+      <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+      <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+      <distribution>repo</distribution>
+    </license>
+  </licenses>
+
+  <developers>
+    <developer>
+      <id>leo</id>
+      <name>Taro L. Saito</name>
+      <email>leo@xerial.org</email>
+      <organization>Xerial Project</organization>
+      <roles>
+        <role>Architect</role>
+        <role>Project Manager</role>
+        <role>Chief Developer</role>
+      </roles>
+      <timezone>+9</timezone>
+    </developer>
+  </developers>
+
+  <organization>
+  	<name>xerial.org</name>
+  	<url>http://www.xerial.org/</url>
+  </organization>
+
   <build>
     <resources>
       <resource>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
index 3d41e31..dac227f 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/Snappy.java
@@ -26,8 +26,10 @@ package org.xerial.snappy;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.Properties;
 
 /**
  * Snappy API for data compression/decompression
@@ -249,7 +251,24 @@ public class Snappy
      * @return native library version
      */
     public static String getNativeLibraryVersion() {
-        return ((SnappyNativeAPI) impl).nativeLibraryVersion();
+
+        URL versionFile = SnappyLoader.class.getResource("/org/xerial/snappy/VERSION");
+
+        String version = "unknown";
+        try {
+            if (versionFile != null) {
+                Properties versionData = new Properties();
+                versionData.load(versionFile.openStream());
+                version = versionData.getProperty("version", version);
+                if (version.equals("unknown"))
+                    version = versionData.getProperty("VERSION", version);
+                version = version.trim().replaceAll("[^0-9\\.]", "");
+            }
+        }
+        catch (IOException e) {
+            e.printStackTrace();
+        }
+        return version;
     }
 
     /**
@@ -354,15 +373,16 @@ public class Snappy
      * @param input
      *            input byte array
      * @param inputOffset
-     *            byte offset
+     *            byte offset in the input byte array
      * @param inputLength
      *            byte length of the input data
      * @param output
      *            output buffer, MUST be a primitive type array
      * @param outputOffset
-     *            byte offset
+     *            byte offset in the output buffer
      * @return the byte size of the uncompressed data
      * @throws IOException
+     *             when failed to uncompress the input data
      */
     public static int rawUncompress(byte[] input, int inputOffset, int inputLength, Object output, int outputOffset)
             throws IOException {
@@ -420,7 +440,7 @@ public class Snappy
      * @param compressed
      *            buffer[pos() ... limit()) containing the input data
      * @param uncompressed
-     *            output of the the uncompressed data. It uses buffer[pot()..]
+     *            output of the the uncompressed data. It uses buffer[pos()..]
      * @return uncompressed data size
      * 
      * @throws IOException
@@ -451,7 +471,7 @@ public class Snappy
      * Uncompress the input data as char array
      * 
      * @param input
-     * @return the umcompressed data
+     * @return the uncompressed data
      * @throws IOException
      */
     public static char[] uncompressCharArray(byte[] input) throws IOException {
@@ -493,7 +513,7 @@ public class Snappy
      * operation takes O(1) time.
      * 
      * @param input
-     * @return umcompressed byte size of the the given input data
+     * @return uncompressed byte size of the the given input data
      * @throws IOException
      *             when failed to uncompress the given input. The error code is
      *             {@link SnappyErrorCode#PARSING_ERROR}
@@ -509,7 +529,7 @@ public class Snappy
      * @param input
      * @param offset
      * @param length
-     * @return umcompressed byte size of the the given input data
+     * @return uncompressed byte size of the the given input data
      * @throws IOException
      *             when failed to uncompress the given input. The error code is
      *             {@link SnappyErrorCode#PARSING_ERROR}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyNative.cpp b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyNative.cpp
index 53452a0..c4b9b4a 100755
--- a/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyNative.cpp
+++ b/src/main/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyNative.cpp
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ void throw_exception(JNIEnv *env, jobject self, int errorCode)
 JNIEXPORT jstring JNICALL Java_org_xerial_snappy_SnappyNative_nativeLibraryVersion
   (JNIEnv * env, jobject self)
 {
-	return env->NewStringUTF("1.0.3");
+	return env->NewStringUTF("1.0.4");
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoaderTest.java b/src/test/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoaderTest.java
index cd7291f..81ecd53 100755
--- a/src/test/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoaderTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/xerial/snappy/SnappyLoaderTest.java
@@ -98,31 +98,31 @@ public class SnappyLoaderTest
         // Actually load Snappy.class in a child class loader
 
         Class< ? > S1 = L1.loadClass("org.xerial.snappy.Snappy");
-        Method m = S1.getMethod("getNativeLibraryVersion");
-        String v = (String) m.invoke(null);
+        Method m = S1.getMethod("compress", String.class);
+        byte[] v = (byte[]) m.invoke(null, "hello world");
 
         // Load Snappy.class from another child class loader
         Class< ? > S2 = L2.loadClass("org.xerial.snappy.Snappy");
-        Method m2 = S2.getMethod("getNativeLibraryVersion");
-        String v2 = (String) m2.invoke(null);
+        Method m2 = S2.getMethod("compress", String.class);
+        byte[] v2 = (byte[]) m2.invoke(null, "hello world");
 
-        assertEquals(v, v2);
+        assertArrayEquals(v, v2);
     }
 
     @Test
     public void load() throws Exception {
         SnappyLoader.load();
-        _logger.debug(Snappy.getNativeLibraryVersion());
+        _logger.debug(Snappy.maxCompressedLength(1024));
     }
 
     @Test
     public void autoLoad() throws Exception {
-        _logger.debug(Snappy.getNativeLibraryVersion());
+        _logger.debug(Snappy.maxCompressedLength(1024));
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         // Test for loading native library specified in -Djava.library.path
         System.setProperty(SnappyLoader.KEY_SNAPPY_USE_SYSTEMLIB, "true");
-        _logger.debug(Snappy.getNativeLibraryVersion());
+        _logger.debug(Snappy.maxCompressedLength(1024));
     }
 }