diff --git a/org.eclipse.help.base/src/org/eclipse/help/internal/search/SearchQuery.java b/org.eclipse.help.base/src/org/eclipse/help/internal/search/SearchQuery.java
index e0190bb36..b4b5015ca 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.help.base/src/org/eclipse/help/internal/search/SearchQuery.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.help.base/src/org/eclipse/help/internal/search/SearchQuery.java
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ public class SearchQuery implements ISearchQuery {
 	String locale;
 	String searchWord;
 	public SearchQuery() {
-		this("", false, new ArrayList<String>(), Platform.getNL()); //$NON-NLS-1$
+		this("", false, new ArrayList<>(), Platform.getNL()); //$NON-NLS-1$
 	}
 	public SearchQuery(String searchWord, boolean fieldSearch,
 			Collection<String> fieldNames, String locale) {
diff --git a/org.eclipse.help.base/src_demo/org/apache/lucene/demo/html/Tags.java b/org.eclipse.help.base/src_demo/org/apache/lucene/demo/html/Tags.java
index fe892d9f2..b83121036 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.help.base/src_demo/org/apache/lucene/demo/html/Tags.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.help.base/src_demo/org/apache/lucene/demo/html/Tags.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ public final class Tags {
   /**
    * contains all tags for which whitespaces have to be inserted for proper tokenization
    */
-  public static final Set<String> WS_ELEMS = Collections.synchronizedSet(new HashSet<String>());
+  public static final Set<String> WS_ELEMS = Collections.synchronizedSet(new HashSet<>());
 
   static{
     WS_ELEMS.add("<hr"); //$NON-NLS-1$