[webbeans-dev] Subclasses of DefinitionException

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Does it hurt to have self explanatory exception names for exceptions ?

It also helps when a tool sees a stacktrace to provide "hyperlinking" to 
the relevant docs or
even the class mentioned in there - there could even be automatic 
quickfixes made based on
these (i.e. "Create method foo on class X" when NonexistentMethodException)

I know the reason you want them out of the spec is to avoid having to 
define when each exception is thrown,
but just stating that "non recoverablity" is definitly not the only 
usecase for specific exception classes/messages.

/max
> The spec currently defines the following subclasses of
> DefinitionException: NonexistentTypeException,
> NonexistentMemberException, NonexistentFieldException,
> NonexistentMethodException, NonexistentConstructorException.
>
> Honestly I don't think there is much value to standardizing these
> exceptions. It's not like they're ever recoverable or anything.
>
> I would like to remove them from the spec and just say
> "DefinitionException" instead.
>
> Any objections?
>
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