Not to poke fun at Java, but here’s what ended up in my RSS aggregator this morning from Andy Oliver:
A Java developer responds: 101 reasons why C# is better than Java, reasons 6-10. [VELOCITY ERROR: parsing weblog entry] org.apache.velocity.exception.ParseErrorException: Encountered “DEBUG” at line 22, column 5. Was expecting: “(” … at org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity.evaluate(Velocity.java:329) at org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity.evaluate(Velocity.java:253) at org.roller.presentation.weblog.WeblogEntryDataEx.getText(WeblogEntryDataEx.java:133) at org.roller.presentation.weblog.WeblogEntryDataEx.getDescription(WeblogEntryDataEx.java:66) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor163.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTMethod.execute(ASTMethod.java:260) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.execute(ASTReference.java:207) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTReference.render(ASTReference.java:250) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTBlock.render(ASTBlock.java:94) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.directive.Foreach.render(Foreach.java:344) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.ASTDirective.render(ASTDirective.java:153) at org.apache.velocity.runtime.parser.node.SimpleNode.render(SimpleNode.java:271) at org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity.evaluate(Velocity.java:359) at org.apache.velocity.app.Velocity.evaluate(Velocity.java:253) at org.roller.presentation.weblog.rss.RssServlet.doPost(RssServlet.java:120) at org.roller.presentation.weblog.rss.RssServlet.doGet(RssServlet.java:132) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.roller.presentation.filters.RssHitTrackerFilter.doFilter(RssHitTrackerFilter.java:47) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.roller.presentation.filters.PageArgsFilter.doFilter(PageArgsFilter.java:222) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:243) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:190) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:475) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:246) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2347) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:468) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:1027) at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1125) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)
Sorry, couldn’t resist.