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
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