Mikhail Loenko wrote:
What is the goal of spec-compatibility for exceptions?
1. Existing applications that work well on Sun's Java might fail on Harmony.
Right - this is a problem. People will say that we're broken. It's not
a easy conversation to have with users who don't care about license,
just want a good JRE to work with, so then delete our implementation.
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
Well, I don't really know if Sun would do that. There is an expert
group that Sun has to deal with...
But if it did happen, yes, we'd have to fix our code.
geir
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.
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Karan Singh
