diff --git a/test/java/nio/file/DirectoryStream/Basic.java b/test/java/nio/file/DirectoryStream/Basic.java
index 69f5d18f656a7ac60416c606e1791f447448aea8..ec9d68ffd17f202b3bad660bbf9f59caf8f0c19b 100644
--- a/test/java/nio/file/DirectoryStream/Basic.java
+++ b/test/java/nio/file/DirectoryStream/Basic.java
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public class Basic {
             throw new RuntimeException("entry not found");
 
         // check filtering: f* should match foo
-        DirectoryStream.Filter<Path> filter = new DirectoryStream.Filter<>() {
+        DirectoryStream.Filter<Path> filter = new DirectoryStream.Filter<Path>() {
             private PathMatcher matcher =
                 dir.getFileSystem().getPathMatcher("glob:f*");
             public boolean accept(Path file) {
diff --git a/test/java/util/PriorityQueue/NoNulls.java b/test/java/util/PriorityQueue/NoNulls.java
index a56259a8ae0e1124ba8daf30c3ab8f2d3df316b0..21f76876b4cfca8513a9cdf3aae162f4b93349a2 100644
--- a/test/java/util/PriorityQueue/NoNulls.java
+++ b/test/java/util/PriorityQueue/NoNulls.java
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.PriorityBlockingQueue;
 public class NoNulls {
     void test(String[] args) throws Throwable {
         final Comparator<String> nullTolerantComparator
-            = new Comparator<>() {
+            = new Comparator<String>() {
             public int compare(String x, String y) {
                 return (x == null ? -1 :
                         y == null ? 1 :
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ public class NoNulls {
         nullSortedSet.add(null);
 
         final PriorityQueue<String> nullPriorityQueue
-            = new PriorityQueue<>() {
+            = new PriorityQueue<String>() {
             public Object[] toArray() { return new Object[] { null };}};
 
         final Collection<String> nullCollection = new ArrayList<>();