S Fox wrote:I have a class that I made which is like a custom data-type, and I'm trying to figure out how to tell java what makes each object unique for the purposes of adding them into a Set? Right now it's just adding everything.
I wanted to compare the objects by a String "name" for deciding the set membership.
Paul Clapham wrote:...maybe you could call that "recovering" anyway? I guess my point is that when an FTP exception happens, then having the application end abnormally isn't our preferred outcome. We would prefer to note that the exception happened, perhaps do something differently, but at any rate we want the application to continue on in a normal way...
Junilu Lacar wrote:The main thing to watch for, IMO, is copping out or worse, being lazy about checked exceptions. If you automatically wrap a checked exception with an unchecked exception and throw it back upstairs, then you have to ask if that's the right thing to do or if you're just being lazy and doing it for the sake of short-term expediency at the cost of long-term robustness of your design.
Junilu Lacar wrote:Scott Shipp... you wouldn't happen to be the author of this article, would you? Just wondering because I had a discussion just in the past few days with someone off-Ranch about what you wrote there. Nothing bad, I assure you. The guy I was talking to was thinking about expanding on some of your points and he and I had a discussion about working on a follow-up article together.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Please give us a link to that article.