I always thought that abending a cobol program was a lame duck method. Bringing that practice into JAVA seems equally lame duck. Handle the dang issue or put the offending records off into an exception file and get on about processing. Set a code... send an e-mail.
Just my 2 cents. <shields activated for defense of application coders> Cheers, Rob Schramm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html