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
In general, it's my opinion that one should never throw, catch, or declare thrown the classes Throwable and Exception. The only exception is at the top level of your code (say your servlet), which should capture any non handled errors, and display a system error page. Wrapper exceptions as sugges