src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/SwingUtilities.java

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 1997, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 1997, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
  * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this

@@ -1098,11 +1098,11 @@
         /* Initialize the text bounds rectangle textR.  If a null
          * or and empty String was specified we substitute "" here
          * and use 0,0,0,0 for textR.
          */
 
-        boolean textIsEmpty = (text == null) || text.equals("");
+        boolean textIsEmpty = (text == null) || text.isEmpty();
         int lsb = 0;
         int rsb = 0;
         /* Unless both text and icon are non-null, we effectively ignore
          * the value of textIconGap.
          */