ok, fair enough. I sent a patch to commons-dev with a workaround for 
Jelly anyway... just have to check back now if the patch was actually 
noticed or not ;-)

Stefan Bodewig ::
> On 26 Mar 2003, Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm going to throw in the extra check in CVS HEAD later
>>today/tomorrow.
> 
> 
> I spoke too soon.  Given the javadocs:
> 
>      * Stores a named nested element using a storage method determined
>      * by the initial introspection. If no appropriate storage method
>      * is available, this method returns immediately.
> 
> it would be a break of backwards compatibility if we started to throw
> an exception instead of simply returning, sorry.
> 
> Stefan