I'm+0 and with a little more time on my hands would be +1. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http://www.multitask.com.au
Morgan Delagrange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 24/01/2003 07:50:14 AM: > Hi all, > > I'm going to talk about Jelly Exception > handling...again. :) I'd like permission to try to > weed out nearly all of our instances of > throwing/catching generic Exceptions and Throwables. > IMO explicit error handling is better than just > throwing Exception. It makes the possible problems in > your application much more clear. It makes it easier > to distinguish between recoverable and unrecoverable > error. It makes it safer to change the application, > because you're aware when you introduce new types of > Exceptions to your application. It's just a good > thing. > > I'd like to try the following steps: > > 1) Replace the generic Exception calls from all method > signatures EXCEPT TAGS with JellyException. In some > cases, there may be a more appropriate exception than > JellyException (e.g. InstantiationException, > ClassNotFoundException, etc.) > > 2) Replace the generic Exception calls in the tag > method signatues with JellyTagException, which will be > a subclass of JellyException. > > 3) Weed out most of the try/catch blocks in the bodies > of our methods that catch Exception or Throwable. I > will replace them with the specific Exceptions they > catch (probably JellyException in most cases). > > Steps 1 and 3 can probably be made without impacting > too many users. Step 2, on the other hand, will > probably require changes to most of our tag > implementations in Jelly, and probably some of the > tags in Maven and Latka as well. I'm willing to take > on as much of the Jelly and Latka work as necessary, > and I can help with the Maven tags. > > I realize this is sort of a pain, but I think it's > worth doing before release. I'd like to give it a > shot. Comments? > > - Morgan > > ===== > Morgan Delagrange > http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs > http://jakarta.apache.org/commons > http://axion.tigris.org > http://jakarta.apache.org/watchdog > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ForwardSourceID:NT000A7066 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
