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Bug 358675

Summary:	[Intro] Remove unnecessary code which used Java reflection
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Chris Goldthorpe <cgold>
Component:	User Assistance	Assignee:	Chris Goldthorpe <cgold>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	trivial
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	3.8 M3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Chris Goldthorpe

2011-09-22 18:05:36 EDT

I20110914-0200

There is code in org.eclipse.ui.internal.intro.impl.util.StringUtil.decode(String, String) which uses reflection. The comment is:

// not running 1.4 so try the old method without an encoding

Since the minimum execution environment is 1.4 this code is unnecessary and can be removed.

Comment 1 Chris Goldthorpe

2011-09-22 18:28:17 EDT

This has been fixed in master, the commit has this comment:

Bug 358675 - [Intro] Remove unnecessary code which used Java reflection