Re: AWT Dev Proposal: Make JNU_Throw* clear a pending exception

2014-02-27 Thread Mike Duigou
Or a suppressed exception. Mike On Feb 25 2014, at 06:14 , Roger Riggs roger.ri...@oracle.com wrote: In some cases, I would expect that the exception being overridden would/should become the 'cause' of the new exception so it is not cleared but chained. Does JNI support that? On the

Re: AWT Dev Proposal: Make JNU_Throw* clear a pending exception

2014-02-25 Thread Chris Hegarty
On 25/02/14 11:26, Petr Pchelko wrote: Hello, Alan. I can see how this might be attractive but doesn't it mean you are suppressing an important exception? In case we’ve already got into the JNU_Throw we will throw a new exception and override the original one anyway. However I agree that

Re: AWT Dev Proposal: Make JNU_Throw* clear a pending exception

2014-02-25 Thread roger riggs
In some cases, I would expect that the exception being overridden would/should become the 'cause' of the new exception so it is not cleared but chained. Does JNI support that? On the original issue, discarding of exceptions should be explicit not implicit. Keep (or insert) the