Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Hi Rony, > >> *The former: it is just frustrating to have a program bomb and get a >> message like "exception occurred". (Yielding the message: "go, figure...")* > > which nicely fits into the original thread :) > > Fixing those exceptions (which I consider buggy in the current > messageless-shape) to carry a meaningful message would address the > original problem of the thread as well as the API consumer's problems. > > (M&M: Sorry, could not resist :)
No problem, I agree. The message should be helpful for the API consumer, means: the developer of the client code. Not necessarily the user. :-P This is the job of the client code's developer who knows the context of the API call that failed. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
