hi all, I have not been able to have the following test case pass under 1.7 and 1.8. Here the list of trial-errors: - Assigning to myMap property names starting upper case does not provide any error as I would expect it should i.e. IllegalArgumentException "Malformed property names provided in Map" - Assigning proper property names i.e. "propertyA" I consistently get InvokationTargetException TIA, regards, Giovanni //------------------------------------------------------------------------ public void testCopyProperties() throws Exception { @SuppressWarnings("unused") class SomeBean { //---------------------------------------------------------------- public final double getPropertyA() { return thePropertyA; } //---------------------------------------------------------------- public final void setPropertyA(double aPropertyA) { thePropertyA = aPropertyA; } //---------------------------------------------------------------- public final double getPropertyB() { return thePropertyB; } //---------------------------------------------------------------- public final void setPropertyB(double aPropertyB) { thePropertyB = aPropertyB; } //---------------------------------------------------------------- /** (non-Javadoc) * @see java.lang.Object#toString() */ @Override public String toString() { return "(" + getPropertyA() + ", " + getPropertyB() + ")"; } //---------------------------------------------------------------- // members //---------------------------------------------------------------- private double thePropertyA; private double thePropertyB; } Object myBean = new SomeBean(); String myExpected = "(1.0, 1.0)"; Map myMap = new HashMap(); myMap.put("propertyA", 1.0); myMap.put("propertyB", 1.0); BeanUtilsBean.getInstance().copyProperties(myBean, myMap); assertEquals("copyProperties method did not work as expected.", myExpected, myBean.toString()); } --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscribe@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-help@commons.apache.org