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-## Copyright (C) 2012-2013 Rik Wehbring
-##
-## This file is part of Octave.
-##
-## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
-## your option) any later version.
-##
-## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
-## General Public License for more details.
-##
-## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
-## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-## -*- texinfo -*-
-## @deftypefn  {Loadable Function} {@var{obj} =} java_new (@var{name})
-## @deftypefnx {Loadable Function} {@var{obj} =} java_new (@var{name}, @var{arg1}, @dots{})
-## Create a Java object of class @var{name}, by calling the class constructor
-## with the arguments @var{arg1}, @dots{}
-## 
-## @example
-## @group
-##   x = java_new ("java.lang.StringBuffer")
-##   x = java_new ("java.lang.StringBuffer", "Initial string")
-## @end group
-## @end example
-## 
-## @seealso{javaObject, javaMethod}
-## @end deftypefn
-
-function retval = java_new (varargin)
-
-  persistent warned = false;
-  if (! warned)
-    warned = true;
-    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
-             "java_new is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave; please use javaObject instead");
-  endif
-
-  if (nargin < 1)
-    print_usage ();
-  endif
-
-  retval = javaObject (varargin{:});
-
-endfunction
-