diff --git a/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/reporter/JSLintReporter.java b/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/reporter/JSLintReporter.java
index fe6d45c..91031fc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/reporter/JSLintReporter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/reporter/JSLintReporter.java
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Map;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 
@@ -26,16 +27,17 @@ public String report(Map<String, Result> results) {
         StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
         buf.append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?>\n");
         buf.append("<jslint>\n");
-        String[] files = results.keySet().toArray(new String[0]);
+        Set<String> strings = results.keySet();
+        String[] files = strings.toArray(new String[strings.size()]);
         Arrays.sort(files);
         for(String file : files){
             Result result = results.get(file);
-            buf.append("\t<file name=\"" + result.path + "\">\n");
+            buf.append("\t<file name=\"").append(result.path).append("\">\n");
             for(JSHint.Error issue : result.errors){
                 buf.append(String.format("\t\t<issue line=\"%d\" char=\"%d\" reason=\"%s\" evidence=\"%s\" ",
                         issue.line.intValue(), issue.character.intValue(), encode(issue.reason), encode(issue.evidence)));
                 if(StringUtils.isNotEmpty(issue.code)){
-                    buf.append("severity=\"" + issue.code.charAt(0) + "\" ");
+                    buf.append("severity=\"").append(issue.code.charAt(0)).append("\" ");
                 }
                 buf.append("/>\n");
             }
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/util/OptionsParser.java b/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/util/OptionsParser.java
index 8974be2..b1977c3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/util/OptionsParser.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/cj/jshintmojo/util/OptionsParser.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package com.cj.jshintmojo.util;
 
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.regex.Matcher;
@@ -59,20 +60,22 @@ public static Set<String> extractOptions(byte[] configFileContentsBytes) {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * @param configFileContentsBytes
+	 * @param configFileContents
 	 *            JSON-like file contents
 	 * @return set of JSHint allowed globals
 	 */
 	public static Set<String> extractGlobals(byte[] configFileContents) {
 		String withoutComments = removeComments(new String(configFileContents));
 		Matcher matcher = GLOBALS_PATTERN.matcher(withoutComments);
-		matcher.find();
-		String globalsCsv = matcher.group(1).replaceAll("\\s", "").replaceAll("\"", "");
+		if(matcher.find()) {
+            String globalsCsv = matcher.group(1).replaceAll("\\s", "").replaceAll("\"", "");
 
-		Set<String> globalsSet = new HashSet<String>();
-		for (String global : globalsCsv.split(",")) {
-			globalsSet.add(global);
-		}
-		return globalsSet;
+            Set<String> globalsSet = new HashSet<String>();
+            Collections.addAll(globalsSet, globalsCsv.split(","));
+            return globalsSet;
+        } else {
+            throw new RuntimeException(String.format(
+                    "Unable to find pattern '%s' in text '%s'", GLOBALS_PATTERN, withoutComments));
+        }
 	}
 }