try {
Locator loc = LocatorFactory.createLocator(“locationOfXMLFileFromHellOrSomeClassloaderThing”);
Factory f = loc.locate(“factoryName”);
Locator factoryLocator = f.createLocator(Constants.NEEDLESS_CONSTANT);
Factory f = (Factory) factoryLocator.locate(ServiceLocator.createInstance());
MyObjectFinally mof = f.createObject();
} catch (StupidGratuitousCheckedException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(“checked Exceptions Are Stupid and Microsoft was right to remove them from C#”,e);
} catch (SemiRedundantOneOffTypedStupidGratuitousCheckedException e2) {
throw new RuntimeException(“checked Exceptions Are Stupid and Microsoft was right to remove them from C#”,e2);
} catch (FactoryNotLocatedException e3) {
throw new RuntimeException(“checked Exceptions Are Stupid and Microsoft was right to remove them from C#”,e3);
} catch (LocatorNotAbleToBeInstantiatedException e4) {
throw new RuntimeException(“checked Exceptions Are Stupid and Microsoft was right to remove them from C#”,e4);
} catch (XMLException e5) {
throw new RuntimeException(“checked Exceptions Are Stupid and Microsoft was right to remove them from C#”,e5);
} catch (RandomParserMadnessException e6) {
throw new RuntimeException(“checked Exceptions Are Stupid and Microsoft was right to remove them from C#”,e6);
}

But if Java wasn’t horrible like that then how would we fill the JCP committees

I think Polyglotism is fine so long as it is strictly for the noble cause of laziness. I go to great amounts of effort to be lazy!

-Andy