I ran into this issue using commons-beanutils through Jasper Reports. FloatLocalConverter.parse throws an exception for valid floats less than or equal to 0. The code parses the value into a double, which it then checks to make sure is a value float. It checks posDouble < Float.MIN_VALUE, which is surprisingly not correct. Float.MIN_VALUE is the smallest positive float (as close as you can get to 0 without being 0), not the most negative float possible. I've checked out the source code, fixed the bug, and tested. How should I go about checking this in?
Thanks, -Steve Brewer
