XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Bradley S. Huffman" <hip AT a.cs.okstate.edu>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold writes:

> The ParseException problem was easily found by switching to Java 1.4 
> for the compile. What I don't understand is why the change was 
> necessary. Shoudln't an overriding method be allowed to return a 
> subclass of the return type of the original, overridden method? In 
> this case, a ParseException is a Throwable, after all. Any idea 
> what's going on here?

You would think, and why didn't it show up for you (with I assume 1.3)?
My guess would be that they just do something like

      method1.getReturnType() == method1.getReturnType()

and call it good.  Maybe there is a good reason not to check the class
heirarchy, I think it's a oversight. Hmmm just noticed Method.equals(Object)
implies it compares the return type but doesn't have any code for that
particular test, another oversight?.

Brad