general qeustion about exceptions

[Peter Aarum]

Hello everybody!

I have a kind of general qeustion about exceptions. I use this aproach: for instance, the RandomAccessFile constructor throws FileNotFoundException. I wrap this exception in my facade with my own DatabaseAccessException to hide implementation to the next tier, the Service tier.

Your view on this?

Best ragards
Peter

[Roel De Nijs]

(I did exactly the same, you should always hide implementation details, so you can easily switch from a flat file to a RDBMS for example)

Kind regards,
Roel

[Prasanna Puttappa]

This is a correct approach in case you do not want to expose system exception to calling program. Similar approach is used when calling EJB methods from the client/business delegate classes. Instead of exposing system exceptions such as RemotException, CreateException to client you can throw custom application exception like ResourceNotAvaiableException.

[Peter Aarum]

Thanks for the reply Roel! You are tha man!

Thanks Prasanna as well (took long time writing message so...)

A releaf to know I am not off base totally

BR
Peter

[Carlos Morillo]

Hi All,

Good question ... So far the only Data class exception I have is InvalidDatabaseException for when I run into
a Database File Format problem reading the cookie, record flag, etc.

I didn't think of this case.


Thanks,

Carlos.