8157677: Subclasses of Reader do not inherit the contents in the exception tag from the parent Reader class in the latest spec

Pavel Rappo pavel.rappo at oracle.com
Tue May 24 14:45:25 UTC 2016


Hi Roger,

> On 24 May 2016, at 15:36, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> To keep it simple and clean, the change from @exception to @throws is not needed
> and reduces the number of files changed.

That's what the change is all about.

I was thinking about it a year ago:

	http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/fbdc1331db75

Turned out to be an incorrect assumption :-) In this particular case @throws
works differently from @exception (unfortunately). That's why I've attached a
specdiff.




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