On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:08:42AM +0100, Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > Added the methods. As you see from my example, I prefer early testing > > of the consistency of the Fop object. > > OK. However, I don't like your catching the IllegalStateException in the > example code. An IllegalStateException is a descendant of > RuntimeException and normally indicates a programmer error. It's not > something that is usually caught. The example code should be instructive > to the normal Java developer and should not distract with that try/catch > around the getDefaultHandler() method IMO.
Neither do I, but I do want to catch the exception, either here or in the listen method, where it is caught together with all exceptions. If I do not catch it, the listening will stop, which I do not want. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
