RFR(S): JDK-8016644 - Improve UnsupportedClassVersionError message

[David Holmes]

Hi Christian,

On 6/02/2014 1:19 PM, Christian Tornqvist wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This change is about making the UnsupportedClassVersionError message a
> bit more user friendly.
>
> Webrev can be found at:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ctornqvi/webrev/8016644/webrev.00/

Not sure how we end up with two cases here - how can we be loading a 
class with no name? Anyway ...

Technically you shouldn't say "Java version" as "Java" is not a noun. It 
would need to be "Java virtual machine version" or "Java platform 
version", but that is too much of a mouthful. You could simply say:

"Class file version %u.%u is greater than the recognized maximum %u.%u"

"%s has a class file version (%u.%u) that is greater than the recognized 
maximum %u.%u"

Or you could I suppose just replace "Java version" with "Java virtual 
machine".

David
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> Bug:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016644
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian
>