Hi Roger, > On 24 May 2016, at 15:36, Roger Riggs <roger.ri...@oracle.com> wrote: > > To keep it simple and clean, the change from @exception to @throws is not > needed > and reduces the number of files changed.
That's what the change is all about. I was thinking about it a year ago: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/fbdc1331db75 Turned out to be an incorrect assumption :-) In this particular case @throws works differently from @exception (unfortunately). That's why I've attached a specdiff.