B&S Required interface

[Simon Arocha]

Hello,

I'm doing the B&S project and have a question regarding the public interface "DB.java" that we must implement.

The thing is that according to the document (body of the interface is given) the methods in the interface that we need to implement do not show that it throw exceptions such as RemoteException or IOException. I have programmed the network part with RMI and can't make it work without adding one of these 'throws'clauses as part of the method signature of the interface.

Does anybody know if is ok to just add for example 'throws IOExeption' to the methods signature or would this be a reason for automatic failure. Or if there a workaround to bypass this exceptions?.

For example:

Instead of

public String[] read(int recNo) throws RecordNotFoudException;

Change to:

public String[] read(int recNo) throws RecordNotFoudException, IOException;


I appreciate any help.


Thanks.

Simon

[Michael Vargenstien]

Hey Simon,

When I was working on that version, I decided to try a decorator pattern where the supplied interface by sun is decorated with additional exceptions at a higher level. This will allow you to use high level methods which intern can call lower methods that correspond to your interface. Hope that helps.

[Lucy Hummel]

Hi Simon,

adding an IOException to one or more method to the DB interface, that would mean you change the interface.

I throw a SystemException in case a IOException occured and document that throwing in my JavaDoc. I hope that SUN like my proposal.

[Simon Arocha]

Thanks,

Adding a new decorated interface with other exceptions worked fine for both RMI and standalone.

Thanks.

Simon