Name: rmT116609 Date: 07/20/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
The javadoc for methods before() and after() in class java.util.Date does not indicate, that the methods' parameters may not be null.

The methods throw a NullPointerException when null is passed as the "when" parameter.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
The methods should either be proof to null parameters or the documentation should tell that the parameters may not be null and a NullPointerException is thrown otherwise.
ACTUAL -
Look at the documentation URL.

URL OF FAULTY DOCUMENTATION :
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/Date.html#after(java.util.Date)
(Incident Review ID: 286507)
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