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Henning Schmiedehausen closed VELOCITY-409.
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> Convert Exceptions to RuntimeExceptions
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> Key: VELOCITY-409
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VELOCITY-409
> Project: Velocity
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Engine
> Affects Versions: 1.4
> Reporter: Will Glass-Husain
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.5
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> There's a movement in the field to simplify Java development by using
> unchecked Exceptions rather than checked Exceptions. Most notably this
> approach has been championed by Rod Johnson (J2EE without EJB, Spring
> Framework) and Bruce Eckels (Thinking in Java). In the last 2 years,
> popular libraries like Spring Framework and Hibernate 3.0 have used unchecked
> exceptions.
> Quote from the DeveloperWorks article listed below:
> "Some exceptions are basically secondary return codes (which generally signal
> violation of business rules), and some are of the "something went horribly
> wrong" variety (such as failure to make a database connection). Johnson
> advocates using checked exceptions for the first category (alternative return
> codes), and runtime exceptions for the latter category. In the "something
> went horribly wrong" category, the motivation is simply to recognize the fact
> that no caller is going to effectively handle this exception, so it might as
> well get propagated all the way up the stack with the minimum of impact on
> the intervening code (and minimize the chance of exception swallowing)."
> I'd argue that Velocity exceptions like ParseException and
> ResourceNotFoundException are of the "horribly wrong" category. Probably
> MethodInvocationException as well. In version 2.0, we should consider making
> VelocityException a subclass of java.lang.RuntimeException.
> Resources:
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jtp05254.html
> Here's an argument against this practice:
> http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/exceptions/runtime.html
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