Nirmal Mukhi wrote:
I'll catch the exceptions separately and trace them. However, I think the correct behavior is to ignore exceptions,
hi,
do not ignore but maybe log them with Trc.exception()
since we have a fallback default factory, and users can be informed through the trace about the excdeption if they care. The alternative is to throw a WSIFException but I don't recall other abstract factory implementations (in WSDL4J, JAXP and so on) throwing exceptions from newInstance() - that is an unnecessary thing the user would have to take care of.maybe in this case it makes sense to distinguish two types of exceptions:
1. "expected" exception such as ClassNotFound that are logged but ignored to allow default factory be created
2. other exception: also logged but allowed to propagate
thanks,
alek
