Re: Catching java.lang.Throwable

2006-08-12 Thread Remy Maucherat
J Ross Nicoll wrote: I'm currently working on some patches to reduce the number of places that catch Throwable, but felt a little bit of an explanation of what why catching Throwable is bad, might be in order. Trying not to make this sound too much like a lecture, and hope I don't irk people to

Catching java.lang.Throwable

2006-08-12 Thread J Ross Nicoll
Found this recently: http://www.jroller.com/page/fate/?anchor=why_i_hate_tomcat Most of it is ranting about parts of Tomcat I don't have any experience with working on, but it does mention Throwable being caught all over the place: "The first issue is the fact that everywhere, Throwable is c