Re: [configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloading

2003-12-22 Thread Oliver Heger
I don't know the preferred policy for API changes. From monitoring this list I got the impression that this can be complicated: old methods first have to be deprecated before they can be removed/replaced in a later release. I am not sure if deprecation helps in all cases, e.g. if a method's re

Re: [configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloading

2003-12-19 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
Eric Pugh wrote: Re: [configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloadingI would like to move on a 1.0 very aggressively now that the vote has passed. Part of me feels that we should basically take the code as is and make that be 1.0. It is very well tested, stable, and in use in some pr

RE: [configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloading

2003-12-19 Thread Eric Pugh
, 2003 6:39 PM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: Re: [configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloading [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Emmanuel, > > ;-) thank you for putting my name in the author field of > ReloadingStrategy, but I do not deserve this

Re: [configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloading

2003-12-19 Thread Emmanuel Bourg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emmanuel, ;-) thank you for putting my name in the author field of ReloadingStrategy, but I do not deserve this honour. This is all your design. That was your idea ;) I have one remark and this is not specific to your code, but applies to whole configuration: Our excepti

RE: [configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloading

2003-12-19 Thread Inger, Matthew
could then declare all your methods to throw ConfigurationException to avoid signature changes in the future. -Original Message- From: Oliver Heger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 4:53 AM To: Jakarta Commons Developers List Subject: [configuration] Exception hand

[configuration] Exception handling - was Automatic reloading

2003-12-19 Thread Oliver Heger
Emmanuel, ;-) thank you for putting my name in the author field of ReloadingStrategy, but I do not deserve this honour. This is all your design. I have one remark and this is not specific to your code, but applies to whole configuration: Our exception handling is very inconsistent in some poi