Thanks for the idea.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Raley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: throwing Exceptions from perform()
> Hi Jonathon,
>
> Struts calls Action.perform from the ActionServlet. Servlets are
> allowed to throw only these two exceptions from their service() methods
> - so you'll need a proprietary Servlet framework as well... :^)
>
> In my app I have a base Action class with a final perform() method. All
> of my actions are subclasses of this base - they implement a different,
> protected method called doPerform() that can throw any exception. The
> base perform() method calls doPerform(), catches exceptions and handles
> them appropriately. Would this design work for you?
>
>
> Jonathan wrote:
>
> > I am seeing that I can only throw IOException and ServletException
> > from my Action classes. Now I was thinking about adding Exceptions to
> > the Action class but that would make it proprietary. I could add just
> > Exception, but I dont want to change anything without good reason.
> > Can you all telll me why I am limited to these two exceptions and what
> > you all are doing about this. The reason is that I have my own
> > exceptions for my app, and will need to throw them sometimes within
> > the perform method.
> >
> > Thanx
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
>
>
>
