From 486cc0f41e5ff4470427eae468fcd19eeef27a0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: robokaso <robokaso@2e8e966d-6415-0410-94b9-dc4e65435d03>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:37:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] RESOLVED - issue BATCH-444: Remove null check from
 ExecutionContext#putString http://jira.springframework.org/browse/BATCH-444

---
 .../java/org/springframework/batch/item/ExecutionContext.java    | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/ExecutionContext.java b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/ExecutionContext.java
index 03014bf7f..0cc674dc1 100644
--- a/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/ExecutionContext.java
+++ b/spring-batch-infrastructure/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/item/ExecutionContext.java
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ public class ExecutionContext {
 
 	public void putString(String key, String value) {
 
-		Assert.notNull(value);
 		put(key, value);
 	}