Proposal: Automatic Resource Management (original) (raw)

Neal Gafter neal at gafter.com
Sat Mar 7 10:39:19 PST 2009

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:

The problem is complicated in a different way in BGGA/JCA control invocation.

While BGGA/JCA can have a 'manage resource and log exceptions' API as well as a 'manage resource and ignore exceptions' API, the problem is which is the default? Developers now have to choose one API over another. And with the logging case they might well have to write their own version that writes to their particular logger. More work.

That's not a very good API design for this class of problems. I would rather expect that a resource management API written using BGGA would allow the developer to register a handler for these ignored exceptions.

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