The prefix 'java.lang.' is not required to refer to this special package. This is the only package this rule applies to.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/codec/trunk@797690 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

Author: garydgregory

src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/Decoder.java

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ public interface Decoder {
      * Object.  Note that the implementation of this
      * interface will try to cast the Object parameter
      * to the specific type expected by a particular Decoder
-     * implementation.  If a {@link java.lang.ClassCastException} occurs
+     * implementation.  If a {@link ClassCastException} occurs
      * this decode method will throw a DecoderException.
      * 
      * @param pObject an object to "decode"

src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/binary/BinaryCodec.java

@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ public byte[] encode(byte[] raw) {
      * @return 0 and 1 ASCII character chars one for each bit of the argument
      * @throws EncoderException
      *                  if the argument is not a byte[]
-     * @see org.apache.commons.codec.Encoder#encode(java.lang.Object)
+     * @see org.apache.commons.codec.Encoder#encode(Object)
      */
     public Object encode(Object raw) throws EncoderException {
         if (!(raw instanceof byte[])) {
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ public Object encode(Object raw) throws EncoderException {
      * @return the raw encoded binary where each bit corresponds to a byte in the byte array argument
      * @throws DecoderException
      *                  if argument is not a byte[], char[] or String
-     * @see org.apache.commons.codec.Decoder#decode(java.lang.Object)
+     * @see org.apache.commons.codec.Decoder#decode(Object)
      */
     public Object decode(Object ascii) throws DecoderException {
         if (ascii == null) {

src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/language/Caverphone.java

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ public String caverphone(String txt) {
      *                          of type java.lang.String
      */
     public Object encode(Object pObject) throws EncoderException {
-        if (!(pObject instanceof java.lang.String)) {
+        if (!(pObject instanceof String)) {
             throw new EncoderException("Parameter supplied to Caverphone encode is not of type java.lang.String"); 
         }
         return caverphone((String) pObject);

src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/language/Metaphone.java

@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ private boolean isLastChar(int wdsz, int n) {
      *                          of type java.lang.String
      */
     public Object encode(Object pObject) throws EncoderException {
-        if (!(pObject instanceof java.lang.String)) {
+        if (!(pObject instanceof String)) {
             throw new EncoderException("Parameter supplied to Metaphone encode is not of type java.lang.String"); 
         }
         return metaphone((String) pObject);

src/java/org/apache/commons/codec/language/RefinedSoundex.java

@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ public int difference(String s1, String s2) throws EncoderException {
      *                  if the parameter supplied is not of type java.lang.String
      */
     public Object encode(Object pObject) throws EncoderException {
-        if (!(pObject instanceof java.lang.String)) {
+        if (!(pObject instanceof String)) {
             throw new EncoderException("Parameter supplied to RefinedSoundex encode is not of type java.lang.String");
         }
         return soundex((String) pObject);