Greetings All
I have been corresponding with Stephen regarding some design decisions
being made in [convert]. I'd like to make a couple of pugnacious
declarations and hope that ensuing discussion generates good ideas and
consensus.
I'll first state my beliefs, then I'll try to justify them
Dear [convert] Members and Contributors
As discussed, Goldman Sachs has allowed me to release the core of my
conversion
framework under Apache License 2.0. Goldman Sachs has already signed Apache
Foundation's Contributor License Agreement as part of an earlier
contribution
to HttpClient.
I've
LA public interface Conversion {
LA public Object convert(Object value) throws Exception;
LA }
RB I am not too sure about the Exception. Throw-everything forces
RB the caller to Catch-everything. Maybe a more specific Exception,
RB like ConversionFailedException, is sufficient.
Stephen
My apologies for the previous message that got stripped of its
attachment and chopped to pieces by the ill-tempered mailing
list robot.
Please find the source compressed in Windows and UNIX flavours
here (with thanks to Mr Reeve):
www.adamreeve.com/jakarta/convert3.zip
