Name: acR10002 Date: 08/29/2002



According to the J2SE API spec v1.4, the call RemoteServer.setLog(null)
should just turn off the logging:
---
public static void setLog(OutputStream out)

Log RMI calls to the output stream out. If out is null, call logging is
turned off.
---

But, in fact, it throws NPE in JDK 1.4 b92 as it can be shown in the
following example:

-------- Test.java ---------
import java.rmi.server.*;
import java.rmi.activation.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        RemoteServer.setLog(null);
    }
}
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Output:

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->java -version
java version "1.4.0"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.0-b92)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.0-b92, mixed mode)

->java Test
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.util.logging.Logger.removeHandler(Logger.java:1150)
        at sun.rmi.runtime.Log$LoggerLog.setOutputStream(Log.java:242)
        at java.rmi.server.RemoteServer.setLog(RemoteServer.java:72)
        at Test.main(Test.java:9)
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I've found that the NPE is no longer thrown in JDK 1.4.1.

So if this has been already fixed as another BugID, please feel free to
close this one as a duplicate of such.
This can also be marked as fixed/int in hopper if this is appropriate.

The bug is needed to track JCK 1.4a test failures under JDK 1.4.

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