StringBuffer is a legacy synchronized class. StringBuilder is a direct replacement to StringBuffer which generally have better performance.

This was required by the Eclipse team as one precondition for the next
release.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Kriegisch <Alexander@Kriegisch.name>

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports "unboxing", e.g. explicit unwrapping of wrapped primitive values. Unboxing is unnecessary under Java 5 and newer, and can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports explicit boxing, i.e. wrapping of primitive values in objects. Explicit manual boxing is unnecessary under Java 5 and newer, and can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

Reports any String.indexOf() expressions which can be replaced with a call to the String.contains() method available in Java 5 and newer.

Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>

This commit introduces some new methods into the
runtime Factory class and modifies code generation
to use them (and to use the form of the LDC bytecode
that loads class constants).

The version handling in LangUtil has been overhauled
to cope better with post 1.8 releases (JDK9 and JDK10 or 18.3
or whatever they call it). As part of this moved
to treating JDK9 as '9' rather than '1.9'. Also removed
duplicate version processing logic and had that defer to
the one place in LangUtil where we now deal with it.

Includes some generics tidyup in ajdoc. More ajdoc work
is necessary for Java10 because it removes the standard doclet
(old style). However trying to invoke the internal Javadoc
handler in Java10 is failing due to module visibility rules.

Compile error: ClassCastException thrown: org.aspectj.weaver.MissingResolvedTypeWithKnownSignature cannot be cast to ReferenceType

New Xset option generateNewLocalVariableTables defaults to true
but can be set to false. In some situations incoming bytecode
for weaving doesn't want them adding (e.g. android situations
where the bytecode is a bit funky).

Issue: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=470658