Hi Folks, Fair comment by Dave: > Eddie, > Why do you consider it bad to extend Object directly? You also said you > prefer checked exceptions but I think that's missing the point of exception > handling. A good article is here: > http://www.javaworld.com/jw-07-1998/jw-07-techniques.html > > Not to be obvious but: > > RuntimeExceptions are not "warnings", they indicate a client programmer > error (ie. misuse of a library method). Checked exceptions indicate an > abnormal condition that a method could not handle and require you to catch > them, as opposed to returning an error code
The best explanation of Exception handling in Java I've come across is in Josh Bloch's "Effectice Java" book (and honestly I am not receiving any royalties...;-) ) I have summarised this info so I have a quick ref-card to stop me doing something silly with my exception handling. It's attached as an rtf doc - hope it helps... Jon
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