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Article:		Best Practices for Exception Handling
Subject:		J2EE and RuntimeException
Date:		2003-11-19 22:30:54
From:		schaefera

Hi As much as I think that converting a checked exception to an unchecked exception is good if the user cannot do anything about it you have to CAREFUL when using it in J2EE. In an EJB throwing a system exception (RemoteException, RuntimeException or Error) does discard the EJB instance and rolls back the transaction no matter what. This can lead to a serious bottleneck and can cause the system to trash when the failure persists. Therefore I would only suggest that converting a checked exception into an unchecked exception is only done on the real client side and not in a library or helper classes because you never know where you are used. Have fun - Andy

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