May I ask you to defer this discussion to later?
At 09:45 PM 12/1/2004, Paul Smith wrote:
Can we at the VERY least NOT let the user try to decipher a NullPonterException.
Isn't there some way we can detect this situation (since we clearly know that it can happen from this discussion), and then throw some sort of more informative Exception (my vote would be IllegalStateException) with some detailed message giving those users who perhaps stepped onto the cluetrain illegally (maybe they didn't pay?) a bit of a helping hand.
If Kermit the Frog (running out of proverbial users I think) saw a NPE, he'd immediately associate that with a bug in log4j code (even though he's wrong). Lets be a bit more open about it.
cheers,
Paul Smith
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