Code Review Request for 6578042

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/11/2011 13:19, Neil Richards wrote:
> :
>
> Of course, there are certain situations where the Java documentation
> guides you to specify property values which are not String objects.
>
> One that springs to my mind is the setting of "java.naming.corba.orb" to
> point to the ORB instance to be used by the JNDI/COS Naming Service
> Provider [1].
>
> (For those using this provider, this setting tends to be important in
> limiting the resources it consumes).
>
> So I'm not sure it's correct to assume that it is an error for Property
> settings to have non-String values.
>
Neil - I think this is a property that is specified in the JNDI 
environment (so Hashtable<?,?> rather than Properties). The only method 
that is impacted by the discussion here is System.clearProperty which 
has always thrown CastClassException if invoked to remove a property 
that doesn't have a String value. I think we're concluding that the only 
thing we do can is fix it so that it doesn't remove the property when it 
fails (and clarify the javadoc accordingly).

-Alan.