>> What about just removing the offending "if(handlerName == null) return null;" >> That should give us acceptable back compatibility since "" and null >> were always meant to be the default.
strictly speaking that's still not equivilent to the previous behavior, because in the past people could call core.getRequestHandlers() and then do a lookup by null *OR* "" to get the default handler -- now only "" will work. but i'm guessing we can get away with it. Committed revision 727934. -Hoss
