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Request for community input: Glassfish 9.1 Error Message Wiki

From: Scott Fordin <Scott.Fordin_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:36:23 -0400

Hi,

The Glassfish 9.1 Error Message Reference is now in editable
Wiki format at:

http://wiki.glassfish.java.net/Wiki.jsp?page=ErrorMessageReference

The most significant shortcoming of the current Error Message
Reference is that it does not contain enough information -- it
pretty much contains just the error message IDs and message
strings, with little or no explanatory text. The challenge is
that it takes a lot of time to develop meaningful descriptions
and solutions/workarounds for the problems indicated by the error
messages, more time than either the developers or doc writers can
currently afford. Moreover, meaningful solutions are really only
available after the product has been "in the wild" for some time.

Finally, there are a lot of error messages here, but some are more
significant and/or encountered more often than others. Through the
process of natural community selection, those errors that are most
important will hopefully rise to the top of the stack.

So, please get involved! If you have a question about an error
message you have encountered when using Glassfish, or if you have
a solution to an error condition listed in the Error Message
Reference, please add it to the Wiki.

Thanks very much, and regards to all,

Scott Fordin
Sun Microsystems
Glassfish Documentation Team