From 37d4c4095b74cb3d0efea32459b8bf66aedfbb4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@vmware.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:03:48 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] removed inappropriate assertion that prevents static method
 calls

git-svn-id: https://src.springframework.org/svn/spring-framework/trunk@2517 50f2f4bb-b051-0410-bef5-90022cba6387
---
 .../main/java/org/springframework/util/ReflectionUtils.java    | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ReflectionUtils.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ReflectionUtils.java
index 7e65495895e..170c948f940 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ReflectionUtils.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/util/ReflectionUtils.java
@@ -193,9 +193,6 @@ public abstract class ReflectionUtils {
 	 * @return the invocation result, if any
 	 */
 	public static Object invokeMethod(Method method, Object target, Object... args) {
-		if (target == null) {
-			throw new IllegalArgumentException("target cannot be null");
-		}
 		try {
 			return method.invoke(target, args);
 		}