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Re: IllegalArgumentException (WG last call on the Java API)

At 10:14 AM 3/26/01 -0700, Steve Sonntag wrote: 
>One thing that is confusing to me is the following:
> 
>When does a method throw LDAPException with PARAM_ERROR
> vs
>throwing IllegalArgumentException
> 
>I realize that the method in the discussion below
>does not throw LDAPException but many others do.
>How does one determine which of the two exceptions is thrown?

I'd suggest doing away with PARAM_ERROR and always
using IllegalArgumentException...  In fact, I suggest
doing away with all LDAPExceptions with API specific
result codes in favor of other Exceptions.

Kurt