Re: [VFS] Softening the exceptions...

2010-10-25 Thread Filip Defoort
Very much -1 on unchecked exceptions. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:33 AM, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: What do people typically do with those exceptions?  Seriously, do you retry stuff on a regular basis in your catch blocks? Yes! Very much so. It's quite useful when dealing

Re: [VFS] Softening the exceptions...

2010-10-25 Thread Filip Defoort
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:45 AM, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Filip Defoort filip...@cirquedigital.com wrote: Yes! Very much so. It's quite useful when dealing with stale nfs, locked files,... Do you implement the retry logic in every

Re: [VFS] Softening the exceptions...

2010-10-25 Thread Filip Defoort
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Paul Benedict pbened...@apache.org wrote: Checked exceptions throw a burden onto the developer. He is forced to do something. Why force this burden? It assumes something SHOULD be done for these particular errors. I don't think that's realistic (they're OS

Re: [VFS] Softening the exceptions...

2010-10-25 Thread Filip Defoort
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:52 AM, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Filip Defoort filip...@cirquedigital.com wrote: Depends. I do have a bunch of wrappers for common types of retries, but often the remedy really is different depending

Re: [VFS] Softening the exceptions...

2010-10-25 Thread Filip Defoort
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:56 AM, James Carman ja...@carmanconsulting.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Filip Defoort filip...@cirquedigital.com wrote: In my view, it is the developer's job to provide an solid experience to the user. That includes properly dealing with underlying

Re: [vote][vfs] set minimum java version to 1.5

2008-05-23 Thread Filip Defoort
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Mario Ivankovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ X] Go on with JDK 1.5 [ ] Go on with JDK 1.4 [ ] Stick with JDK 1.3 for the following reason: Cheers, - Filip - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: [vfs] vfs2 or plain wrapper mode

2008-05-21 Thread Filip Defoort
Hi Mario, On 5/21/08, Mario Ivankovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, my questions are: * [ ] Do you agree that such an evolution might make sense * and if so, should I ** [ ] add a VFS-global (static) flag to enable this wrapper-like-mode or ** [ ] can I fork VFS to put the current head into

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-29 Thread Filip Defoort
Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen wrote: Filip Defoort skrev den 27-08-2007 18:01: Good luck doing that cross platform in java :) Well, I didn't mean mount as in actually mount a file system, just unzip and maintain an uncompressed directory tree of the portions of the zip file that are in use

Re: [VFS] Writing to Jar, Zip, Tar..

2007-08-27 Thread Filip Defoort
Torsten Curdt wrote: On 25.08.2007, at 17:26, Filip Defoort wrote: Mario Ivankovits wrote: Hi! It is an interesting topic (to underline this: I am sitting here on vacation for a hadful of days using my mobile to write this mail ;-) ), though, due to some other OS projects I am really