Recently I read a slashdot article - http://it.slashdot.org/story/10/07/28/2121259/Oracles-Java-Company-Change-Breaks-Eclipse about Java 1.6.0_21 release crashing Eclipse IDE because the IDE has code which checks for “Sun Microsystems” in the JVM company field property. This made me think about whether we should write code to handle these rare scenarios or things we take for granted that they will not change. In my opinion if we know or can predict that something like this will happen then handle it in code, else deal with it when it comes.