Sure, working on reading it. For some reason I haven't read the Exception chapter yet, but I'll take that one next. Thanks for the suggestion!
Eventhough I think at least some of my workmates have read that book, still they don't seem to have that clear view about exceptions. -Hannu Casper Bang wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
