I agree with Tim that we should discuss on the dev list Later we might want to have some roadmap once we find a number of similar issues
At this point I think we might be compatible when RI throws wrong exceptions - for example it often mixes NPE and IllegalArgumentException Thanks, Mikhail On 2/17/06, Anton Avtamonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just minor comment: > Many times I saw very strange behavior in jdk which I was absolutely > sure about: definitely a bug. But then... I found applications which > used those strange things! > > I hust want to say that it is important to be very careful when > deciding what is bug: it is very probable to find an application > basing on it (java world is very very huge :) ). > > -- > Anton Avtamonov, > Intel Middleware Products Division > > > On 2/17/06, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mikhail Loenko wrote: > > > depending on the bug... > > > > actually, this is the answer I would give too (which I know is not very > > helpful). > > > > Some apparent 'bugs' are ambiguities in the spec, or a different choice > > of under-specified behavior that we likely want to match to ensure > > compatibility; others may be deemed implementation bugs that we should > > not recreate. > > > > Sometimes it's a tough call, we should seek consensus on the dev list. > > > > > I would not like to be compatible with SIGSEGVs :) > > > > We'll have our own versions ;-) > > > > Regards, > > Tim > > > > > Thanks, > > > Mikhail > > > > > > On 2/16/06, Alexey Petrenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> 2006/2/16, Tim Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >>> Tests should be written to the javadoc spec, rather than deducing > > >>> behavior from any particular implementation. > > >> By the way... > > >> Do we want to be bug compatible with reference implementation? > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Alexey A. Petrenko > > >> Intel Middleware Products Division > > >> > > > > > > > -- > > > > Tim Ellison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > IBM Java technology centre, UK. > > > > >
