<Beans Dev> java beans bug?

[Sergey Malenkov]

Hi Peter,

This is an issue in the following constructor:
PropertyDescriptor(PropertyDescriptor,PropertyDescriptor).
Could you please file a bug?
http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/

Thanks,
SAM

On 25.07.2012 16:55, Rushforth, Peter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with running a program at java 7, and in fact on java 6 on
> non-commercial platform (ubuntu).  But it is really the fact that java 7 is
> telling me to upgrade that concerns me, so I wonder if you could help tell me if
> a) this is in fact a bug and b) if there as a jvm switch /setting that can be
> used to allow this backwards-compatibility.
>
> The problem is that a particular setter is not found at java 7, for the code as attached,
> whereas it is found at java 6 (on windows and rhel java, at least).
>
> This a maven project, which you don't actually have to run, but the comments in the pom
> file will show you the output if you do run it.  Here is the output under java 6&  7:
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\...>"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java" -cp . JavaBeansBug
> java version: 1.6.0_24
> created object, introspecting with java.beans.BeanInfo
> NO SETTER:class
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\...>java -cp . JavaBeansBug
> java version: 1.7.0
> created object, introspecting with java.beans.BeanInfo
> NO SETTER:class
> NO SETTER:providerManager
>
>
> Thanks for any advice.  I can't change the code because it belongs to public libraries which
> no longer seem maintained.  I have distilled the issue to the above sample code, I think.
>
> Peter Rushforth
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