Code review request for 6857789: (reflect) Create common superclass of reflective exceptions
Joseph D. Darcy
Joe.Darcy at Sun.COM
Fri Jul 10 17:51:35 UTC 2009
Jason Mehrens wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Wouldn't LinkageException be a better fit than
> ReflectiveOperationException? Shorter name and it would mimic the
> LinkageError inheritance tree introduced in JDK1.0. I.E. LinkageError
> -> NoClassDefFoundError, LinkageException -> ClassNotFoundException
"LinkageException" is a shorter name, but these conditions do not
indicate there is a problem with linkage. If there were a linkage
program, you wouldn't have the reflective object to work with.
-Joe
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