Support Forums: Message List - Easy and correct exception chaining

Is it really that simple?

Thu, 11 May 2006 05:52:06 -0400

I believe I saw this same exact thing on the Bile Blog. (not that it ever gets read). However, I've seen some very cool uses of Java 5 with Exceptions. One of which is undoing the String message anti-pattern and using an enum instead. That allows the...

Is it really that simple?

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:23:50 -0500

Saying something is bad style is pretty meaningless without a pragmatic reason.

However, I see now that I misunderstood what your code was doing, I thought you were defining an Exception class. It would be nice to have some code formatting here,...

Is it really that simple?

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 15:38:13 -0500

While you could put the checks in a constructor that you own, I think throwing an exception in a constructor (almost as a side effect) is bad style. The model I have in my head is that "new SomeException()" creates the exception. It shouldn't...

Is it really that simple?

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:07:43 -0500

Can't you just put this in the Exception constructor?

if (e instanceof RuntimeException) {
throw (RuntimeException) e;
} else if (e instanceof Error) {
throw (Error) e;
}

Easy and correct exception chaining

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:28:57 -0500

The utility class Rethrow has a single method wrap(String msg, Throwable t) which does the following:

* Checks if t is a RuntimeException or Error, if so immediately rethrows the exception.
* Checks if t is already an...