FYI- There are many places in the code (> 60 times) where we try/catch, and do not throw. To make matters worse, we only create a log statement when debug is on.
I don't know the specific try/catch you're talking about but sometimes you don't want to rethrow a caught exception (for example you want to return null and not an exception). It's definitively a case-by-case problem. We should definitively start javadocing the methods telling explicitely what's the behaviour when an error occurs.
I’m in the process of changing the log.debug() to log.warn() so there will be a better indication of any problems.
+1 (but not everywhere :-))
-Vladimir
-- Vladimir R. Bossicard Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice
