Hi Jonathon,
Struts calls Action.perform from the ActionServlet. Servlets are
allowed to throw only these two exceptions from their service() methods
- so you'll need a proprietary Servlet framework as well... :^)
In my app I have a base Action class with a final perform() method. All
of my actions are subclasses of this base - they implement a different,
protected method called doPerform() that can throw any exception. The
base perform() method calls doPerform(), catches exceptions and handles
them appropriately. Would this design work for you?
Jonathan wrote:
> I am seeing that I can only throw IOException and ServletException
> from my Action classes. Now I was thinking about adding Exceptions to
> the Action class but that would make it proprietary. I could add just
> Exception, but I dont want to change anything without good reason.
> Can you all telll me why I am limited to these two exceptions and what
> you all are doing about this. The reason is that I have my own
> exceptions for my app, and will need to throw them sometimes within
> the perform method.
>
> Thanx
>
> Jonathan
>
