Name: sh120115 Date: 03/30/2001


The problem is in line 266 of DefaultPersistenceDelegate which
includes the new getGetListenerMethod of EventListener. I added
it (to support the new getFooListener stuff in 1.4) and added
the catch clause at line 270 in the hope of handling the case
where the method is not defined on 1.3. Unfortunately, a missing
method throws a MethodNotFoundError, not an exception, so the
code always fails on 1.3.

One solution is to include the new EventListener class with
a distribution of the archiver since it, obviously, contains
the new method. This would work, but it introduces an order
dependency on the archiver.jar and the rt.jar - if they are
the wrong way around the code will break here and people will
have trouble working out why.

I think the right thing to do is to change line 270 from:

            catch (Exception e2) {

to

            catch (Throwable e2) {

to fix the problem. I think this is low risk and would allow me
to maintain a single version of the code.

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