I don't see a patch.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "toby cabot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:54 AM
Subject: [JBoss-dev] "catch (Exception e)" considered harmful


> Folks,
> 
> Thanks for your efforts on JBoss.  It's awesome.  I believe that I
> earned this rant by cleaning up the file where I found these problems
> and submitting it to the patch manager on sf.net:
> 
> I just spent much more time than necessary to track down a bug that got
> hidden by some code that looked like:
> 
>   } catch (Exception e) {
>     e.printStackTrace();
>   }
> 
> I found this in the same file:
> 
>   } catch (Exception e) {}
> 
> This is bad because it catches *any* exceptions that happen in the try
> block, not just the ones that you're likely to be able to handle.  This
> makes debugging much harder because the system emits much less useful
> information about the exception.  I understand that it takes more time
> to catch specific errors and deal with them but it makes the system
> *much* more resilient.
> 
> Please, please, make sure that you catch only what your code can
> properly deal with, and let everything else percolate up.
> 
> Regards,
> Toby Cabot
> 
> 
> 
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