Name: rlT66838 Date: 07/13/99
The definition of java.lang.Boolean.getBoolean as obtaining the boolean value of a *system property* is not at all intuitive. When I am looking for a method that returns information about system properties, I check java.lang.System, not java.lang.Boolean.
When glancing at the API for java.lang.Boolean, a method defined as "getBoolean(string)" appears to take a string argument that will be converted to a boolean.
The java.lang.Boolean.getBoolean method is more logically a method of java.lang.System.
(Review ID: 85543)
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JDK-4253773 java.lang.Boolean needs a parseBoolean(string) method
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