diff --git a/jjb/shell/tagcollisionreject.sh b/jjb/shell/tagcollisionreject.sh
index 85015d4..49d6e21 100755
--- a/jjb/shell/tagcollisionreject.sh
+++ b/jjb/shell/tagcollisionreject.sh
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@
   then
     NEW_VERSION=$(python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin); print obj["version"]' < package.json)
     VERSIONFILE="package.json"
+  elif [ -f "pom.xml" ]
+  then
+    NEW_VERSION=$(xmllint --xpath '/*[local-name()="project"]/*[local-name()="version"]/text()' pom.xml)
+    VERSIONFILE="pom.xml"
   else
     echo "ERROR: No versioning file found!"
     exit 1
diff --git a/jjb/shell/versiontag.sh b/jjb/shell/versiontag.sh
index 669aeec..a75087b 100755
--- a/jjb/shell/versiontag.sh
+++ b/jjb/shell/versiontag.sh
@@ -42,6 +42,10 @@
   then
     NEW_VERSION=$(python -c 'import json,sys;obj=json.load(sys.stdin); print obj["version"]' < package.json)
     VERSIONFILE="package.json"
+  elif [ -f "pom.xml" ]
+  then
+    NEW_VERSION=$(xmllint --xpath '/*[local-name()="project"]/*[local-name()="version"]/text()' pom.xml)
+    VERSIONFILE="pom.xml"
   else
     echo "ERROR: No versioning file found!"
     exit 1