rymurr commented on a change in pull request #7619: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/7619#discussion_r452076262
########## File path: java/memory/memory-core/src/main/java/org/apache/arrow/memory/DefaultAllocationManagerOption.java ########## @@ -109,7 +109,8 @@ static AllocationManagerType getDefaultAllocationManagerType() { field.setAccessible(true); return (AllocationManager.Factory) field.get(null); } catch (Exception e) { - throw new RuntimeException("Unable to instantiate Allocation Manager for " + clazzName, e); + throw new RuntimeException("No DefaultAllocationManager found on classpath. Can't allocate Arrow buffers." + + " Please consider adding arrow-memory-netty or arrow-memory-unsafe as a dependency."); Review comment: good idea @BryanCutler that is much cleaner. Fixed ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org