Hi Philipp, I suspect the behavior dates back to the original implementation in JDK 1.2. I am not sure it should be changed at this point though the javadocs should be updated.
Best Lance > On Jan 17, 2019, at 5:53 PM, Philipp Kunz <philipp.k...@paratix.ch> wrote: > > Hi, > > In the JavaDoc comment for java.util.jar.Attributes#equals on line 269 > it says: > [...] Returns true if the given object is also an instance of > Attributes [...] > but that is not actually true. Passing a LinkedHashMap results also in > true returned given equal content of both maps. > Comment and implementation don't match perfectly. But which way it > should be? > Could not be less important probably, so please excuse me if it's like > spam. > > Philipp <http://oracle.com/us/design/oracle-email-sig-198324.gif> <http://oracle.com/us/design/oracle-email-sig-198324.gif> <http://oracle.com/us/design/oracle-email-sig-198324.gif> <http://oracle.com/us/design/oracle-email-sig-198324.gif>Lance Andersen| Principal Member of Technical Staff | +1.781.442.2037 Oracle Java Engineering 1 Network Drive Burlington, MA 01803 lance.ander...@oracle.com <mailto:lance.ander...@oracle.com>
