On Jan 16, 2015, at 11:33 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> The change to the javadoc isn't strictly required as there is a general > statement in the package description that NPE be thrown when methods or > constructors are called with null. Thanks, I missed that. > So the implementation should throw NPE rather than IAE and as it's an > incompatible change then it should be tracked. It's important to add a test > case too. Here’s an updated patch including a (perhaps overkill) test: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/6880737/webrev.01/ Thanks, Brian