Index: model/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/core/JavaProject.java
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RCS file: /home/eclipse/org.eclipse.jdt.core/model/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/core/JavaProject.java,v
retrieving revision 1.345
diff -u -r1.345 JavaProject.java
--- model/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/core/JavaProject.java	23 May 2005 15:11:35 -0000	1.345
+++ model/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/core/JavaProject.java	1 Jun 2005 16:48:14 -0000
@@ -11,15 +11,6 @@
 package org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core;
 
 import java.io.*;
-import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
-import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
-import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileInputStream;
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.io.InputStream;
-import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
-import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -2121,6 +2112,26 @@
 				// fallback to default
 				property = new String(bytes);
 			}
+		} else {
+			// when a project is imported, we get a first delta for the addition of the .project, but the .classpath is not accessible
+			// so default to using java.io.File
+			// see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=96258
+			File file  = rscFile.getLocation().toFile();
+			if (file.exists()) {
+				byte[] bytes;
+				try {
+					bytes = org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.util.Util.getFileByteContent(file);
+				} catch (IOException e) {
+					return null;
+				}
+				try {
+					property = new String(bytes, "UTF-8"); //$NON-NLS-1$ // .classpath always encoded with UTF-8
+				} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+					Util.log(e, "Could not read .classpath with UTF-8 encoding"); //$NON-NLS-1$
+					// fallback to default
+					property = new String(bytes);
+				}
+			}
 		}
 		return property;
 	}