question: public SpyVersions loadVersions ( ) throws XMLException { setLoading ( true ) ; final String urlString = propertyLoader . getProperty ( BasePropertyNames . VERSION_INFO_URL ) + "?current=" + currentRelease ; try { final URL url = new URL ( urlString ) ; final String xml = IOUtils . toString ( url . openStream ( ) ) ; versions = ( SpyVersions ) loadFromString ( xml ) ; } catch ( IOException | NullPointerException e ) { throw new XMLException ( "Cannot read version info from " + urlString , e ) ; } setLoading ( false ) ; return versions ; }
target:  Loads version information from the URL.