Name: nt126004 Date: 09/06/2002

FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.1-root-020219-20:07)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.1, mixed mode)

FULL OPERATING SYSTEM VERSION : N/A


A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
Being able to inherit @throws text in an overiding method is cool.
But with many exceptions the text could be standard. For example,
RemoteException usually simply signals a remote communications
failure, and most methods don't have a more specific reason to
throw it. This means that a standard @throws clause could apply
to almost all uses of RemoteException. This is true for many
others, at least in many uses, including InterruptedException,
IOException, ClassNotFoundException, etc.

There should be some way to "inherit" (really "copy") some standard
text for an exception into ones @throws clause. Maybe you could
just use the first (summary) sentence of the exception's class
decscription. Or the first paragraph.

This would also really benefit from being able to treat generated
doc from others (like the JDK itself) as input to other runs of
layered products. Then I could "inherit" this stuff from the JDK
when writing my own javadoc.

Alternatively (but less usefully), having some way to specify
default text for @throws clauses in my own packages (possibly in
some config file or top level package.html or something) would save
me a lot of copy/paste/oops/copy/paste-most-places/oops cycles.


REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.
(Review ID: 158555)
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