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[ejb-spec users] Re: [jsr345-experts] Fwd: [jsr342-experts] proposed MDB improvements

From: Marina Vatkina <marina.vatkina_at_oracle.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:36:27 -0700

Philippe,

On 3/10/13 7:56 AM, Philippe Marschall wrote:
>
>
> On 08.03.2013 20:22, Marina Vatkina wrote:
>> Experts,
>>
>> This is our chance at modernizing MDBs in the Java EE 7 release.
>
> We'll quite frankly I don't wee why massive changes like this one can
> make it in at such a late time but absolutely minor changes like
> making existing methods return generic instead of raw types and
> supporting Exception#getCause() have to wait at least for another four
> years.

Were these requests ever filed in the ejb-spec JIRA? If they were not,
we didn't know about them. If they were and we missed them - sorry. An
API change is a tricky thing because what can be seen as a simple
change, might break an existing application (or cause unnecessary
warnings for that matter).

That said, which Exception#getCause() do you have in mind? All EJB
exceptions inherit getCause from Throwable.

thanks,
-marina

>
> Cheers
> Philippe