Name: dkC103137 Date: 09/15/2000


 The test libs_api_tests/common_2/java_rmi/server/RMIClassLoader/loadClass_2Tests case Test03 from
testbase_ss is invalid for testing since JDK1.2. The testcase Test03 wrongly expects
MalformedURLException for loadClass invocation with null URL codebase parameter:
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try {
   URL codeBase = null;
   Class cName = RMIClassLoader.loadClass(codeBase, sName);
   System.out.println("class: " + cName);
} catch (Exception e) {
   exceptionThrown = true;
   if ( e instanceof MalformedURLException ) {
      bReturn = true;
      System.out.println("Test 3 Passed");
      System.out.println ("Expected MalformedURLException thrown");
   } else {
      bReturn = false;
      System.out.println("Test 3 Failed");
      System.out.println ("Exception thrown, but not the expected MalformedURLException");
   }
   e.printStackTrace();
}
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But Java2 SE v1.3 API Spec reads:
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public static Class loadClass(URL codebase, String name)
                       throws MalformedURLException,
                              ClassNotFoundException
Loads a class from a codebase URL. If the given codebase is null, then the Class object returned is
equivalent to the Class object returned by RMIClassLoader.loadClass(name).
Parameters:
  codebase - the URL to load the class from
  name - the name of the class to load
Returns:
  the Class object representing the loaded class
Throws:
  MalformedURLException - if the codebase paramater contains an invalid non-null URL
  ClassNotFoundException - if a definition for the class could not be found at the specified URL
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