On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:10 AM, James Carman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Gary Gregory > <ggreg...@seagullsoftware.com> wrote: >> Do we want the APIs to be quieter than using java.io.File for example? Or, >> should exceptions be thrown from similar places? >> > > Definitely quieter than java.io.File! I *hate* that API for its > checked exceptions. > >> I am worried that we would make all APIs "quiet" (unchecked exceptions) as a >> opposed to really thinking where exceptions should be checked or return an >> Boolean error code (like File mkdir) >> > > I'm one of those folks who think the checked exceptions are evil, so I > am fine with getting rid of them entirely (think about how much nicer > your Hibernate code looks without the checked exceptions). Boolean > returns are fine I guess. No real strong opinion on that one. >
I'm not in favor of changing much at this point. I'd really like to get a release done without too many more changes. Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
