Re: RMI RemoteException

2008-08-29 Thread David Holmes - Sun Microsystems
HI Trenton, This might not be the right place for it but ... RemoteException is checked because you have to understand that it can happen (and occasionally will) and you have to think about what can be done to recover (even if you ultimately decide to just to "fail" by throwing some other exc

hg: jdk7/tl/jdk: 6614052: jhat fails to read heap dump > 2GB.

2008-08-29 Thread swamy . venkataramanappa
Changeset: dc604a6da888 Author:swamyv Date: 2008-08-29 14:33 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/dc604a6da888 6614052: jhat fails to read heap dump > 2GB. Summary: Modified the jhat code to use long for unsigned int. This is a forward port of changes from Kevin Wa

RMI RemoteException

2008-08-29 Thread Trenton D. Adams
Hi Guys, Is this the right list to be discussing RMI topics? I saw some RMI related stuff when I did a site search on google. I'm curious what the reasoning is behind leaving RemoteException as a checked exception. It seems to me that it would be more relevant to have it as a RuntimeExceptio

hg: jdk7/tl/langtools: 6597471: unused imports in javax.tools.JavaCompiler; ...

2008-08-29 Thread jonathan . gibbons
Changeset: 5e89c4ca637c Author:jjg Date: 2008-08-29 11:10 -0700 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/langtools/rev/5e89c4ca637c 6597471: unused imports in javax.tools.JavaCompiler 6597531: unused imports and unused private const. in com.sun.tools.javac.Server.java Reviewed-by: m

hg: jdk7/tl/jdk: 6576763: Thread constructors throw undocumented NPE for null name

2008-08-29 Thread christopher . hegarty
Changeset: 5d278726f0dc Author:chegar Date: 2008-08-29 17:46 +0100 URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk7/tl/jdk/rev/5d278726f0dc 6576763: Thread constructors throw undocumented NPE for null name Summary: update javadoc to specify NPE as well as fix minor bug in implementation. Revie