EJB best practices: Build a better exception-handling framework

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EJB best practices: Build a better exception-handling framework

Deliver more useful exceptions without sacrificing clean code

Level: Intermediate

Brett McLaughlin (brett@oreilly.com), Author and Editor, O'Reilly and Associates

01 Jan 2003

Enterprise applications are often built with little attention given to exception handling, which can result in over-reliance on low-level exceptions such as java.rmi.RemoteException and javax.naming.NamingException. In this installment of EJB Best Practices, Brett McLaughlin explains why a little attention goes a long way when it comes to exception handling, and shows you two simple techniques that will set you on the path to building more robust and useful exception handling frameworks."