It would be interesting to know the number of thrown throwables in the JVM, to be able to do some high level application diagnostics / statistics. A good way to put this number would be a performance counter, since it is accessible both from Java and from the VM.
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8007806 http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~nloodin/8007806/webrev.00/ Regards, Nils Loodin