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On 8/3/2011 8:31 PM, 
supercalifragilisticexpialadiamaticonormalizeringelimatisticantations wrote:
> On 02/08/2011 5:07 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
> ...
>> It seems to generally do the most useful thing it could, but I really
>> would like documentation that would let me predict the results without
>> running the experiments.
>
> I wonder if Oracle isn't as committed to quality documentation (or,
> perhaps, to Java at all) as Sun was. :(
>
> I also wonder what happens with this:
>
>
> public void method () throws SomeCheckedException,
> SomeUnrelatedCheckedException {
>
> try {
> throwSomething();
> } catch (SomeCheckedException | SomeUnrelatedCheckedException e) {
> logger.log(e);
> throw e;
> }
> }
>
> Does this work? Or does method() need throws
> LastCommonSupertypeOfThoseCheckedExceptions instead to avoid a compile
> error?

I think this is covered by another extension. See
http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/catch-multiple.html,
"Rethrowing Exceptions with More Inclusive Type Checking".

Patricia