Friday-Eve link inspired by "How to tell when a project you are on is in trouble"...
You may have all seen this before but Jeff's post this morning made me think of it... http://mindprod.com/unmain.html It still kills me... mark Jeff Caddel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 11/21/2002 01:01:01 PM Please respond to "Struts Users Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Struts Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] How to tell when a project you are on is in trouble > > >I think (hope?) that it's a joke Andrew. Although the subject line makes me think that it might be real and therefore very, very worrying. > I'm sad to say, it's very real. He found it debugging a problem that was coming out in the stacktrace as a NullPointerException. Since NullPointerException supports chaining it took 4-5 seconds to find the line of code causing the NullPointerException and 4-5 hours trying to unravel what the real cause of the problem was. Turned out to be an IO problem (related to permissions I think) where the code was dutifully catching IOException but just ignoring it and instead re-throwing NullObjectException. >>The "architect" of the project a friend of mine is on just unleashed >>this beauty into the source tree, thought ya'll might get a >>kick out of it: >> >>/** >>* NullObjectException >>* >>* Copyright © 2001,2002 ###### Corp. All rights reserved. >>* This exception is used if the object must not be null and it is >>* >>* @author #### ######### >>*/ >>public class NullObjectException extends Exception { >> // Doesn't have to do anything >>} >> >>Note how neatly this disables nested exception handling!!! >>Pretty nice eh?? >> >>---- >>Jeff Caddel >> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: < mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: < mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
