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  Best Practices for Exception Handling
Subject:   Don't wrap exceptions!
Date:   2008-07-31 00:20:09
From:   kdgar
Response to: Don't wrap exceptions!

This is 100% correct.


Just to add to this argument (which is already well put), say your presentation layer catches only SQLExceptions. You then switch to a different type of data source like a web service. Your presentation will then be catching things that never happen. In fact, all your code may completely fail to compile.


Had you been catching a wrapped exception, like PersistenceException, you'd be in good shape.

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