[BCEL-82] BCEL 5.2 is not source compatible with 5.1

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 5.2
• Component/s: Documentation
• External issue URL: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39771
• External issue ID: 39771
• Assignee: Apache Commons Developers
• Reporter: Alex Kinneer
• Created: 09/Jun/06 21:56
• Updated: 24/Apr/14 13:54
• Resolved: 24/Apr/14 13:54

Description

At least two methods now declare checked exceptions that did not previously;
there may be others:

org.apache.bcel.generic.ObjectType.subclassOf(ObjectType)
org.apache.bcel.generic.ReferenceType.getFirstCommonSuperclass(ReferenceType)
--> Both now declare ClassNotFoundException

This of course causes a compile-time error in existing code that does not
provide (inadvertent) exception handling around these methods.

Suggest revising release notes or remapping these exceptions to some type of
RuntimeException.