Question to default behavior of PortletPreferences

[mvoopentext]

Using jboss-portal-2.4.0-CR2, downloaded 24 July 2006 portal bundled with AS

Hello


If a preferences name is declared within in the portlet.xml, but the value tag is empty request.getPreferences().getValue(...) returns null rather than an empty String. Is this working as intended?

NameWithEmptyValue



The same applies for getValues

The same applies if is replaced by

[mvoopentext]

Hm, my bracktes got stolen..

<preference>
<name>NameWithEmptyValue</name>
<value></value>
</preference>



and
<value />