From 340a46710cf380c9ef3625db862d4d2fbc29797b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sergey Malenkov <malenkov@openjdk.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 11:34:18 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] 4638075: DOC: Doc for
 java.beans.PropertyDescriptor.getPropertyType() is incorrect

Reviewed-by: gsm
---
 .../java/beans/IndexedPropertyDescriptor.java    | 11 +++++++----
 .../classes/java/beans/PropertyDescriptor.java   | 16 +++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/IndexedPropertyDescriptor.java b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/IndexedPropertyDescriptor.java
index e0d2bb4bb4f..4290dc77297 100644
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/IndexedPropertyDescriptor.java
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/IndexedPropertyDescriptor.java
@@ -313,11 +313,14 @@ perty.
     }
 
     /**
-     * Gets the <code>Class</code> object of the indexed properties' type.
-     * The returned <code>Class</code> may describe a primitive type such as <code>int</code>.
+     * Returns the Java type info for the indexed property.
+     * Note that the {@code Class} object may describe
+     * primitive Java types such as {@code int}.
+     * This type is returned by the indexed read method
+     * or is used as the parameter type of the indexed write method.
      *
-     * @return The <code>Class</code> for the indexed properties' type; may return <code>null</code>
-     *         if the type cannot be determined.
+     * @return the {@code Class} object that represents the Java type info,
+     *         or {@code null} if the type cannot be determined
      */
     public synchronized Class<?> getIndexedPropertyType() {
         Class type = getIndexedPropertyType0();
diff --git a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/PropertyDescriptor.java b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/PropertyDescriptor.java
index 70a539c81fd..8158922497e 100644
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/PropertyDescriptor.java
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/beans/PropertyDescriptor.java
@@ -164,14 +164,16 @@ public class PropertyDescriptor extends FeatureDescriptor {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Gets the Class object for the property.
+     * Returns the Java type info for the property.
+     * Note that the {@code Class} object may describe
+     * primitive Java types such as {@code int}.
+     * This type is returned by the read method
+     * or is used as the parameter type of the write method.
+     * Returns {@code null} if the type is an indexed property
+     * that does not support non-indexed access.
      *
-     * @return The Java type info for the property.  Note that
-     * the "Class" object may describe a built-in Java type such as "int".
-     * The result may be "null" if this is an indexed property that
-     * does not support non-indexed access.
-     * <p>
-     * This is the type that will be returned by the ReadMethod.
+     * @return the {@code Class} object that represents the Java type info,
+     *         or {@code null} if the type cannot be determined
      */
     public synchronized Class<?> getPropertyType() {
         Class type = getPropertyType0();