Should we build a superset of Java?

Wed Apr 4 11:38:00 GMT 2001

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It has bothered me for a long time that SUN hasn't opened up Java to a peer
review process (no... the JCP does not count). I have a number of small things
I would like to see added to Java and GCJ seems like a great way to standardize.
For example. It would be nice if you could have nested Exceptions. IE one
Exception thrown because of another Exception. This comes in really handy
within factories and networked communications.
Example:
pubic void someDomain() {
 try {
 //do something not really relevant to this method
 
 } catch ( SomeOtherDomainsException sode ) {
 throw new SomeDomainException( sode );
 }
}
Then when you called printStackTrace on SomeDomainException you would get:
SomeDomainException: Exception thrown because of exception below SomeOtherDomainException
SomeOtherDomainException: Some other stuff (IE the root cause of the Exception)
Then you would end up with nested Exceptions. Java currently doesn't support
this (except if you build it). I think it is a logical extension but there is
no way I am going to go through the JCP to get this added.
Has anyone defined a way GCJ is going to add language extensions this in the
future? Remember we don't have a standards committee :)
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Kevin A. Burton ( burton@apache.org, burton@openprivacy.org, burtonator@acm.org )
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tyrannical control bad.
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