Name: sdR10048 Date: 03/03/2004


Filed By : SPB JCK team (###@###.###)
JDK : 1.5.0-beta2-b40
JCK : 1.5
JCK test owner : http://javaweb.eng/jct/sqe/JCK-tck/usr/owners.jto

Specification excerpt:
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--------- J2SE API spec v.1.5 ---------
...
The package spec for java.beans states:

/ Unless explicitly stated, null values or empty Strings are not valid parameters
  for the methods in this package. You may expect to see exceptions if these
  parameters are used. /


...
---------- end-of-excerpt ---------------

Problem description
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As for us the given spec is not enough presice.
It is unknown whether passing the null-param (or "") will cause an exception
and what kind of exception should be expected - NullPointerException,
IllegalArgumentException etc.

Both examples given in http://java.sun.com/j2se/javadoc/writingapispecs/index.html#method
regarding null-parameters clearly specify the expected behaviour.

Stops the JCK test development.

JCK test source location:
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/java/re/jck/1.5/promoted/latest/JCK-runtime-15/tests

The testcases that are touched:
api/java_beans/EventSetDescriptor/descriptions.html#Ctor1[EventSetDescriptor0002]
api/java_beans/EventSetDescriptor/descriptions.html#Ctor2[EventSetDescriptor0006]
api/java_beans/EventSetDescriptor/descriptions.html#Ctor3[EventSetDescriptor0011]
api/java_beans/EventSetDescriptor/descriptions.html#Ctor4[EventSetDescriptor0016]
api/java_beans/EventSetDescriptor/descriptions.html#Ctor5[EventSetDescriptor0022]
api/java_beans/EventSetDescriptor/descriptions.html#Ctor6[EventSetDescriptor0028]


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