diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java
index 6725b02b2..b0363781b 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Property.java
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ public class Property extends Task {
                                 Properties props, InputStream is, boolean isXml) throws IOException {
         if (isXml) {
             // load the xml based property definition
-            // use reflection because of bwc to Java 1.3
+            // use reflection because of bwc to Java 1.4
             try {
                 Method loadXmlMethod = props.getClass().getMethod("loadFromXML",
                                                                   new Class[] {InputStream.class});