Name: agR10195 Date: 11/04/2003



The following test MH reveals that MemoryHandler() throws RuntimeException,
but it also prints two messages into stderr, if
java.util.logging.MemoryHandler.target is not set or set to unexisting
handler. Such behavior does not contradict the spec, but it is unusual - error
messages are usually wrapped into execptions (into RuntimeException in this
case).

public class MH {
    final static LogManager logManager = LogManager.getLogManager();

    public static void main (String args[]) {
        try {
            MemoryHandler handler = new MemoryHandler();
        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
        }
    }
}

% ../jdk1.5.0-b25/solaris-sparc/bin/java MH
MemoryHandler can't load handler "null"
java.lang.NullPointerException

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