On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Maas van den Berg wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
>
> Didn't catch that previous thread. Addition of exception squashing
> code was the result of running unit tests against the RI of Sun.
Well, I saw it earlier, but I've lost it again. I think Jason
commented in the "DFM Take 2" thread, but I think Jeremy was the original
commenter.
> In this case it probably doesn't break anything, but in general
> shouldn't our code show identical black-box behavior compared to the RI?
IMHO, no. I think it should implement the same API, but I don't
think we should feel obligated to duplicate the exact RI implementation
details down to the text of exceptions and storing a null factory and so
on.
Aaron
