diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/editor/SharedTextColors.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/editor/SharedTextColors.java
deleted file mode 100644
index dc14db01941..00000000000
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/editor/SharedTextColors.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,79 +0,0 @@
-/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
- * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
- * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
- * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
- * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
- *
- * Contributors:
- *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
- *******************************************************************************/
-
-package org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor;
-
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import java.util.Map;
-
-import org.eclipse.jface.text.source.ISharedTextColors;
-import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color;
-import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.RGB;
-import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
-
-/*
- * @see org.eclipse.jface.text.source.ISharedTextColors
- * @since 2.1
- */
-public class SharedTextColors implements ISharedTextColors {
-
-	/** The display table. */
-	private Map fDisplayTable;
-
-	/** Creates an returns a shared color manager. */
-	public SharedTextColors() {
-		super();
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * @see ISharedTextColors#getColor(RGB)
-	 */
-	public Color getColor(RGB rgb) {
-		if (rgb == null)
-			return null;
-			
-		if (fDisplayTable == null)
-			fDisplayTable= new HashMap(2);
-		
-		Display display= Display.getCurrent();
-		
-		Map colorTable= (Map) fDisplayTable.get(display);
-		if (colorTable == null) {
-			colorTable= new HashMap(10);
-			fDisplayTable.put(display, colorTable);
-		}
-			
-		Color color= (Color) colorTable.get(rgb);
-		if (color == null) {
-			color= new Color(display, rgb);
-			colorTable.put(rgb, color);
-		}
-			
-		return color;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * @see ISharedTextColors#dispose()
-	 */
-	public void dispose() {
-		if (fDisplayTable != null) {
-			Iterator j= fDisplayTable.values().iterator();
-			while (j.hasNext()) {
-				Iterator i= ((Map) j.next()).values().iterator();
-				while (i.hasNext())
-					((Color) i.next()).dispose();
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	
-}
-
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/CUIPlugin.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/CUIPlugin.java
index e08cf953c08..de5e32f0a1e 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/CUIPlugin.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/ui/CUIPlugin.java
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.buildconsole.BuildConsoleManager;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.ASTProvider;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.CDocumentProvider;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.CustomBufferFactory;
-import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.SharedTextColors;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.WorkingCopyManager;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.editor.asm.AsmTextTools;
 import org.eclipse.cdt.internal.ui.refactoring.CTextFileChangeFactory;
@@ -335,8 +334,6 @@ public class CUIPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin {
 
 	// ------ CUIPlugin
 
-
-	private ISharedTextColors fSharedTextColors;
 	private ImageDescriptorRegistry fImageDescriptorRegistry;
 	private CEditorTextHoverDescriptor[] fCEditorTextHoverDescriptors;
 
@@ -599,10 +596,9 @@ public class CUIPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin {
 		manager.unregisterAdapters(fCElementAdapterFactory);
 	}
 
+	/** @deprecated Use {@link EditorsUI#getSharedTextColors()} instead. */
 	public ISharedTextColors getSharedTextColors() {
-		if (fSharedTextColors == null)
-			fSharedTextColors= new SharedTextColors();
-		return fSharedTextColors;
+		return EditorsUI.getSharedTextColors();
 	}
 	
 	public void configurePluginDebugOptions(){
diff --git a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/internal/ui/editors/SharedTextColors.java b/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/internal/ui/editors/SharedTextColors.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 46b016c39fd..00000000000
--- a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/internal/ui/editors/SharedTextColors.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-/*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2000, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
- * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
- * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
- * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
- * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
- *
- * Contributors:
- *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
- *******************************************************************************/
-package org.eclipse.cdt.debug.internal.ui.editors;
-
-import java.util.Iterator;
-import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
-import java.util.Map;
-import java.util.HashMap;
-import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color;
-import org.eclipse.jface.text.source.ISharedTextColors;
-import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.RGB;
-
-/*
- * @see org.eclipse.jface.text.source.ISharedTextColors
- * @since 2.1
- */
-class SharedTextColors implements ISharedTextColors {
-
-	/** The display table. */
-	private Map fDisplayTable;
-
-	/** Creates an returns a shared color manager. */
-	public SharedTextColors() {
-		super();
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * @see ISharedTextColors#getColor(RGB)
-	 */
-	public Color getColor(RGB rgb) {
-		if (rgb == null)
-			return null;
-
-		if (fDisplayTable == null)
-			fDisplayTable= new HashMap(2);
-
-		Display display= Display.getCurrent();
-
-		Map colorTable= (Map) fDisplayTable.get(display);
-		if (colorTable == null) {
-			colorTable= new HashMap(10);
-			fDisplayTable.put(display, colorTable);
-		}
-
-		Color color= (Color) colorTable.get(rgb);
-		if (color == null) {
-			color= new Color(display, rgb);
-			colorTable.put(rgb, color);
-		}
-
-		return color;
-	}
-
-	/*
-	 * @see ISharedTextColors#dispose()
-	 */
-	public void dispose() {
-		if (fDisplayTable != null) {
-			Iterator j= fDisplayTable.values().iterator();
-			while (j.hasNext()) {
-				Iterator i= ((Map) j.next()).values().iterator();
-				while (i.hasNext())
-					((Color) i.next()).dispose();
-			}
-		}
-	}
-
-}
diff --git a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java b/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java
index 4398765025b..4b378853e1f 100644
--- a/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java
+++ b/debug/org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/debug/ui/CDebugUIPlugin.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*******************************************************************************
- * Copyright (c) 2004, 2007 QNX Software Systems and others.
+ * Copyright (c) 2004, 2008 QNX Software Systems and others.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
  * Contributors:
  * QNX Software Systems - Initial API and implementation
  * ARM Limited - https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=186981
+ * Anton Leherbauer (Wind River Systems)
  *******************************************************************************/
 package org.eclipse.cdt.debug.ui;
 
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
 import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
 import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPage;
 import org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchWindow;
+import org.eclipse.ui.editors.text.EditorsUI;
 import org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin;
 import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;
 
@@ -66,8 +68,6 @@ public class CDebugUIPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin {
 
 	private CDebugImageDescriptorRegistry fImageDescriptorRegistry;
 
-	private ISharedTextColors fSharedTextColors;
-
 	/**
 	 * The constructor.
 	 */
@@ -276,10 +276,6 @@ public class CDebugUIPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin {
 	 */
 	public void stop( BundleContext context ) throws Exception {
 		CDebugCorePlugin.getDefault().removeCBreakpointListener( CBreakpointUpdater.getInstance() );
-		if ( fSharedTextColors != null ) {
-			fSharedTextColors.dispose();
-			fSharedTextColors = null;
-		}
 		if ( fImageDescriptorRegistry != null ) {
 			fImageDescriptorRegistry.dispose();
 		}
@@ -293,8 +289,6 @@ public class CDebugUIPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin {
 	 * @since 3.1
 	 */
 	public ISharedTextColors getSharedTextColors() {
-		if ( fSharedTextColors == null )
-			fSharedTextColors = CUIPlugin.getDefault().getSharedTextColors();
-		return fSharedTextColors;
+		return EditorsUI.getSharedTextColors();
 	}
 }