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Build Identifier: M20110210-1200 In 3.6 the TocManager class switched from storing the TocContributions in an ArrayList to a HashMap (method: getAndCacheTocContributions()) in order to allow the contributions to be sorted alphabetically if the sort attribute is set to true. This is great if what you want to do is sort the help alphabetically. However, in previous versions of eclipse, when the contributions were stored in an ArrayList, the order found in the plugin.xml was preserved in the ArrayList and that way it was possible to define your own specific non-alphabetical toc order. This useful functionality is now gone. Now, the HashMap does not preserve that order, so you can either sort alphabetically or you can use the hashcode order that the HashMap stores the elements in (this is completely useless). This could be fixed if instead of HashMap, TocManager more specifically used a LinkedHashMap, where order would be preserved. This would still allow the sort attribute to work as well and sort the toc alphabetically if the user so chose. Reproducible: Always
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