Are aware of the seminal book "Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch which devotes an entire chapter to Java exceptions?
/Casper On 15 Aug., 02:31, Hannu Leinonen <hlein...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello posse (of The Posse)! > > I've been lately discussing about exception handling in Java with my > workmates. And I've noticed that there's some uncertainty about > Exceptions and how to use them. Currently we're working on a quite > traditional three-tier Spring+Hibernate web app (using way too much of > that disgusting null programming, but that's another story). > > Personally I usually regard ... catch (Exception e) ... as a code smell > because it will catch - usually unintentionally - all RuntimeExceptions > too. Not to mention catching Throwable, like there was a lot we could do > with Errors. My current style is catching all checked exceptions on > their own blocks and catching RuntimeException on it's own block where > it makes sense (at least in controllers). But that sometimes makes the > code ugly with a dozen catch blocks doing exactly the same thing. AFAIK > Project Coin is going to fix this annoyance. Would it be better in a > situation where I anyways catch RuntimeException to use Exception as it > is the lowest common denominator? > > How do you make the most out of your Exceptions? And how do you do it in > multi-tier architecture? > > Best Regards, > Hannu --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---