What is the goal of spec-compatibility for exceptions? 1. Existing applications that work well on Sun's Java might fail on Harmony. 2. Sun, once it discovers the bug, will most likely change the spec rather then impl, and we will have to return and fix our code
Thanks, Mikhail On 2/17/06, karan malhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anton Avtamonov wrote: > > IMHO, when spec states some exception we should be spec-compatible. > > +1 > > > >On 2/17/06, Mikhail Loenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I agree with Tim that we should discuss on the dev list > >> > >> > > > >+1 > > > > > > > >>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 > >> > >> > > > >Sometimes spec states IllegalArgumentException should be thrown, but > >implementation produces NPE. I think that is because > >IllegalArgumentException is missed in impl and algorithm just failed > >somewhere... > >IMHO, when spec states some exception we should be spec-compatible. > > > >-- > >Anton Avtamonov, > >Intel Middleware Products Division > > > > > > > > -- > Karan Singh > >
