The method java.awt.ComponentOrientation.getOrientation(ResourceBundle) uses a convoluted approach to get a component orientation from a rather random collection of sources. Having this method in our API doesn't serve a real need, it just confuses developers. Smart developers will either call getOrientation(Locale) if they want to rely on the J2RE's defaults, or produce a component orientation of their own choice in their own way.

The method should be deprecated, with a recommendation to use getOrientation(Locale).