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Peter Klügl reassigned UIMA-6131:
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Assignee: Peter Klügl
> UIMA Ruta SeedLexer throws Error instead of exception
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> Key: UIMA-6131
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/UIMA-6131
> Project: UIMA
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Ruta
> Reporter: Mario Juric
> Assignee: Peter Klügl
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.0ruta, 2.8.0ruta
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> The SeedLexer and possibly other related classes used by Ruta throw
> java.lang.Error instead of java.lang.Exception. This is usually only thrown
> by the JVM when it’s really impossible to continue the process, e.g. out of
> memory, linkage errors or fatal VM failures, and it therefore not meant to be
> caught under normal circumstances, so most runtime environment don't capture
> these. This can therefore cause the whole process to fail instead of just the
> document being processed.
> It would therefore be preferable if these components throw a type of
> java.lang.Exception instead, so that the process can proceed with the next
> document without the need to hook into the runtime core and catch
> java.lang.Error. The errors are also not subclassed, so it's awkward to
> distinguish them by checking for the message string itself.
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