On 11/09/2010 00:45, Wesley Acheson wrote: > I'm looking through the source now where I'm seeing a lot of > Throwables caught. I was always told this was bad practice is there a > reason for this? Some I could understand but there seems to be places > where throwable is caught even though the javadocs say it throws an > exception. And by your handling of the throwable it looks like you > know what to expect the throwable to be. > > Just getting my head arround it.
Usually as a short-cut. Sometimes it is reasonable, sometimes not. I thought we had caught all the ones that mattered in a bug fix a few months ago. There may be some left. ExceptionUtils is the way to handle them. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org