Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-29 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- bob mcwhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having to update drools, werkz, blissed, petridish, > and werkflow just > isn't going to be fun. > I've supplied patches for drools, blissed, and werkflow. I couldn't find any tags in the petridish repository. Werkz is already updated, probably

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-29 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- bob mcwhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'll succumb then, as Strachan has spoken. > > All hail the Strachan, and I'll lift my threat of > veto. > > Now, looking for volunteers to help migrate all of > my taglibs... :) > I volunteer. Look for patches on this list. - Morgan > >

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-29 Thread dion
Hey Bob, bob mcwhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 30/01/2003 01:32:43 AM: [snippage] > I apologize for my goofy example, so, lemme try again, catching what > I want, and letting others escape: > > public void doTag(XMLOutput) throws Exception > { > Object obj = null; > > try > { >

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-29 Thread James Strachan
From: "Morgan Delagrange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm in total agreement in general - however I > > disagree about the Tag > > interface change. The only class which will ever be > > invoking the Tag.doTag() > > method is the TagScript class. > > Not

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-29 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- bob mcwhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Golly, does this break pretty much all existing > tags? > (bob scans his bazillion tags...) Is this drools you're talking about? Yes, every tag that throws Exception will no longer compile against the HEAD of Jelly. Not desirable, I agree, but a

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-28 Thread bob mcwhirter
Golly, does this break pretty much all existing tags? (bob scans his bazillion tags...) I don't really buy the style argument regarding making it easier for readers vs. authors of tags. I don't think this is a place to assert a particular dogma. The issue, as I see it, is about error-handling

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-28 Thread Morgan Delagrange
--- James Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess I'm too late to argue this one any more but > here's my 2 pennies for > what its worth. > > From: "Morgan Delagrange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi all, > > > > I'm going to talk about Jelly Exception > > handling...again. :) I'd like permiss

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-28 Thread dion
James, I have a buildable version of Maven on my hard disk waiting for the jelly snapshots to get uploaded to ibiblio. I've also uploaded werkz-1.0-beta6 to ibiblio that uses the new api. -- dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting Blog: http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog Work: http:

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-28 Thread James Strachan
I guess I'm too late to argue this one any more but here's my 2 pennies for what its worth. From: "Morgan Delagrange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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 > throwin

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-23 Thread dion
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 ab

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-23 Thread David Kennedy
On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 09:56 pm, Rodney Waldhoff wrote: While there may be cases in which "catch(Exception e)" could be construed as reasonable thing to do, I think we'd be hard pressed to ever justify "catch(Throwable t)". +1 There are very, very few cases where you want to catch a

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-23 Thread Rodney Waldhoff
> Morgan Delagrange wrote: > > >I'd like permission to try to > >weed out nearly all of our instances of > >throwing/catching generic Exceptions and Throwables. > While there may be cases in which "catch(Exception e)" could be construed as reasonable thing to do, I think we'd be hard pressed to ev

Re: [Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-23 Thread Robert McIntosh
Morgan Delagrange wrote: 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 ma

[Jelly] Release Issue 3 - Exception handling

2003-01-23 Thread Morgan Delagrange
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