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Bug 358675 - [Intro] Remove unnecessary code which used Java reflection
Summary: [Intro] Remove unnecessary code which used Java reflection
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: User Assistance (show other bugs)
Version: 3.7   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.8 M3   Edit
Assignee: Chris Goldthorpe CLA
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Reported: 2011-09-22 18:05 EDT by Chris Goldthorpe CLA
Modified: 2011-09-22 18:28 EDT (History)
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Description Chris Goldthorpe CLA 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 CLA 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