P&B As a designer of libraries for usage in Java Servlets I have come to the conclusion that deriving exceptions from the "Exception" class only leads to complexities both for direct usage in Servlets or for embedment in other libraries.
Due to this I have reverted to deriving "my own" exceptions from IOException or RunTimeException. This allows interfaces to only declare that they throw IOException but still enables the user to catch specific exceptions if needed. The latter seldom or never happens in real life in my experience. I would suggest a revision of iText according to this lines since iText is perfect for Servlet usage and all those try-catchs just becomes ugly and counterproductive. I just found out that I was not alone with this: http://www.dehora.net/journal/2003/08/checked_exception_still_considered_pointless.html BR Anders _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
