Name: avC70361 Date: 04/29/99



  java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoader.loadClass(URL, String) and loadClass(String, String) don't specify their
behaviour in a case of null first argument. The reference implementation doesn't throw any exception as it
might have been expected and loads a class with the standard class loader. But this behaviour is not evident
and should be specified by the documnentation.

Here is a test demonstrating the bug.
---------------RMILoaderTest.java----------------------
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.rmi.RMISecurityManager;
import java.rmi.server.RMIClassLoader;

public class RMILoaderTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setSecurityManager(new RMISecurityManager());
        try {
            Class cl = RMIClassLoader.loadClass((URL)null, "RMILoaderTest");
            System.out.println("Failed. NullPointerException is not thrown");
        } catch(NullPointerException e) {
            System.out.println("Passed.");
        } catch(MalformedURLException e) {
            System.out.println("Failed. Unexpected exception : " + e);
        } catch(ClassNotFoundException e) {
            System.out.println("Failed. Unexpected exception : " + e);
        }
    }

}
-----------------The test output-------
> java RMILoaderTest
Failed. NullPointerException is not thrown

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