Name: saC57035 Date: 10/05/98


The java.beans.Introspector specs say nothing about possibility
of the null search path. Namely, the documentation of the
setBeanInfoSearchPath(String path[]) method should explicitly
state whether null search path is allowed.

In JDK 1.1 null search path was allowed. It never worked correctly
though, so the R&D team proposed to disallow null search path by
throwing an exception if null is passed to setBeanInfoSearchPath
(see evaluation for 4167121). It sounds quite reasonable, and the
docs should explicitly say what behavior is expected.

By now the JCK team has the following JCK-116a failure when run on JDK 1.2:
  api/java_beans/Introspector/manual.html#SearchPath
This failure cannot be resolved until the specs are clarified.

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