[jdom-interest] More JDK 1.1 incompatibilities in Beta 4

[Patrick Dowler]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, barry_shultz at hp.com wrote:
> (2) Document and Element methods getSerializedForm()
>  throw UnsupportedOperationException
> 
> Idea:
> 
> throw new java.lang.RuntimeException("Unsupported")

Nooooooo!!!!! Whenever one degardes a specific type of exception to 
a general one and forces the programmer to parse Strings, the compiler
can't tell if you are doing it right... if the operations is not supported, then
UnsupportedOperationException is correct. 

For such simple classes as exceptions, where all the functionality is in
the class heirarchy itself, a much better alternative for this is to write the
exception class and make sure the class loader finds it. I recall that you had
to make sure classses.zip was in your classpath, so you  should just be able
to add "missing-from-1.1.jar" to that...

I don't know for sure, since I gave up on 1.1.x as soon as I could :-)

--

Patrick Dowler
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre


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Hi all,

I am using beta 4 to process and create XML files. My problem is that I am
creating a stand alone class that will create XML from some parameters and
I want the member functions to return a String object containing the XML,
as the class doesn´t know whether the XML will be written to file or
whatever. I am unable to find a way to to this, as the XMLOutputter only
uses OutputStreams..

does anyone know how this can be done ?

Regards,

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