OK, thanks. Don't get me wrong, I think Velocity is cool technology and I knew you guys must have a good reason for doing something like that.

Submit a patch? Maybe some day. I've been a committer before myself for a couple of Apache projects. But I'm too much of a newbie now. I want to first get it to work in my app. I'm close but not there yet. :-)


Nathan Bubna wrote:
Suspected initial cause:
    IO code that throws Exception and unwillingness to catch, wrap and re-throw

Relevant anecdote:
   Velocity has been around longer than "Effective Java" and is still
doing b.c. 1.x releases

Current holdup:
   no one has been bothered enough to offer a patch to fix it yet

Possible fixes:
   a patch from you?  a 2.x version?  enough nagging from you and
others to get one of us committers to change it?  :)

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Steve Cohen <[email protected]> wrote:
I must admit I am surprised to see that many key methods of Velocity such as
Velocity.init() and Velocity.mergeTemplate() have a signature includes that
includes "throws Exception" which is what I would be tempted to consider a
beginner's mistake.  Certainly Joshua Bloch in "Effective Java" indicates
his distaste for the practice and it's something I always try to avoid in my
code.

Can someone explain why Velocity does it this way and an effective strategy
for wrapping this ugliness away someplace?

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