2011/3/28 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> > By the way, here is something that happens fairly frequently around me (it > just occurred to me that this was relevant to our current discussion). > > Someone writes a Spring-based functionality, deploys it and it blows up > with hundreds of lines of stack trace in the unique way that Spring apps > usually do. The developer analyzes the stack trace, finds the culprit, > decides that this exception is not really an error, goes back to the source, > adds a catch and reruns his app. > > I don't really care about the details of the solution, but this kind of > scenario is exactly what I want to avoid. > > I'll freely admit that this is a diversion, but... isn't that an argument against Spring, far more than being an argument in favour for Checked Exceptions?
Avoiding Spring's more excessive stack traces is certainly a laudable goal, but does it really justify the entire language "feature"? Especially given the pain I've had tracking down bugs in some code because Spring swallowed an exception and re-threw a different one without the vital error information I needed - an anti-pattern that I attribute directly to checked exceptions. > -- > Cédric > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright gtalk / msn : [email protected] <[email protected]>mail: [email protected] vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright twitter: @thecoda "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
