Javadoc does not specify... Is null allowed in Files.setAttribute() as an attribute value?

[Francis Galiegue]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
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> NPE is specified in the package documentation (general exceptions section),
> this was to avoid the noise of adding a @throws NPE to every method.
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OK, I should really re-read all the javadoc once again (I missed that
"empty path" stuff but I ultimately think it's a design error --
nevermind).

In that case, and more generally, why doesn't the JDK use JSR 305?

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