On 11.03.2013 05:36, Marina Vatkina wrote:
> 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.
[1], [2], OK different spec but very closely related [3] and same EE7
schedule.
[1]
http://java.net/jira/browse/JMS_SPEC-108
[2]
http://java.net/jira/browse/JMS_SPEC-113
[3]
http://java.net/jira/browse/JMS_SPEC-116
Cheers
Philippe