Remove useless null-check.
diff --git a/commons-jcs-core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/auxiliary/lateral/LateralCache.java b/commons-jcs-core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/auxiliary/lateral/LateralCache.java
index 433ee5e..dbeb339 100644
--- a/commons-jcs-core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/auxiliary/lateral/LateralCache.java
+++ b/commons-jcs-core/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/auxiliary/lateral/LateralCache.java
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@
      */
     public void fixCache( ICacheServiceNonLocal<K, V> restoredLateral )
     {
-        if ( this.lateralCacheService != null && this.lateralCacheService instanceof ZombieCacheServiceNonLocal )
+        if ( this.lateralCacheService instanceof ZombieCacheServiceNonLocal )
         {
             ZombieCacheServiceNonLocal<K, V> zombie = (ZombieCacheServiceNonLocal<K, V>) this.lateralCacheService;
             this.lateralCacheService = restoredLateral;
diff --git a/commons-jcs-jcache-openjpa/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/jcache/openjpa/OpenJPAJCacheDerivation.java b/commons-jcs-jcache-openjpa/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/jcache/openjpa/OpenJPAJCacheDerivation.java
index 97575a4..44ebd0e 100644
--- a/commons-jcs-jcache-openjpa/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/jcache/openjpa/OpenJPAJCacheDerivation.java
+++ b/commons-jcs-jcache-openjpa/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/jcs3/jcache/openjpa/OpenJPAJCacheDerivation.java
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
     {
         final Map<?, ?> props = cp.getProperties();
         final Object dcm = Configurations.getProperty("DataCacheManager", props);
-        if (dcm != null && JCACHE_NAME.equals(dcm))
+        if (JCACHE_NAME.equals(dcm))
         {
             if (Configurations.getProperty("DataCache", props) == null)
             {