[LANG-753] Document v3.x changes to Validate API

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.1
• Fix Version/s: 3.2
• Component/s: lang.*
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Oliver Siegmar
• Created: 14/Sep/11 08:53
• Updated: 22/Aug/12 09:25
• Resolved: 27/Jun/12 16:28

Description

Validate.notNull() throws an IllegalArgumentException in commons-lang 2.6, but in 3.0.1 it throws a NullPointerException. I can't find any note about this in the release notes. I think this is a regression, because it could break others code.