Handling database exception

[Elly Kut]

Hello Listers, I have a question about how to "design error handling" for a generic class that accesses a database.
I want to use try/catch/finally because if there is a problem during the flow, I would like to disconnect and destroy the connection (so that's why I don't want to declare a "throws")
But at the same time, after closing the connection in the finally clause, I also want my catch statement to throw an exception, so the calling application knows something bad happened. Should I create a custom exception class (extending SQLException) and throw it in my catch clause?
Thanks for your time.

[Bear Bibeault]

"Elly K", please check your private messages for an important administrative matter.

[Campbell Ritchie]

What is more, you ought to have posted on the JDBC forum. Moving thread.