On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Steve Cohen wrote: > In Joshua Bloch's "Effective Java" he makes a point of stating that writers > of Javadoc comments should be ESPECIALLY interested in documenting runtime > exceptions that are NOT listed in the throws clause (as in fact, they're not > required to be). Makes good sense to me, since you're not required to list > these, how else are you going to warn users of your class that such may be > thrown? > > However, the default settings of CheckStyle, at least those in use in the > commons/sandbox/net project, seem to militate against doing this. Document a > runtime exception that may be thrown without putting it in the throws clause > and you'll get one of these errors: > > Unused @throws tag for 'IllegalArgumentException'. > > Is this setting really the way we want it to be?
This is a bug in checkstyle. I filed a bug report at the beginning of April: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=540382&group_id=29721&atid=397078 regards, michael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
