Re: Java 7 features

From:

Wojtek <nowhere@a.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:15:32 GMT

Message-ID:

<mn.29ef7d774ba97e0e.70216@a.com>

Piotr Kobzda wrote :

Wojtek wrote:

Oliver Wong wrote :

FWIW, I think Sun got this part of the language design right and that
there is value in having two different types of exceptions.

Indeed there is.

If I have the following:

public class Foo
{
public static final int BAR = (new FooBar("foobar")).getIndex();
public static final int BAR_2 = (new FooBar("foobar2").getIndex();
}

If the constructor for FooBar("") is defined as throwing a checked
exception, how do you handle it?

Simply:

public class Foo
{
   public static final int BAR;
   public static final int BAR_2;
   static {
     try {
       BAR = (new FooBar("foobar")).getIndex();
       BAR_2 = (new FooBar("foobar2").getIndex();
     } catch(Exception e) {
       throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(e);
     }
   }
}

But does not the final keyword preclude this?

And I also get an error that BAR has not been initialized.

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