http://winterdom.com/2006/08/exceptionmanagementrules by dæmons be driven Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:33:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://winterdom.com/2006/08/exceptionmanagementrules/comment-page-1#comment-555 Tomas Restrepo Thu, 31 Aug 2006 06:09:12 +0000 http://winterdom.com/2006/08/exceptionmanagementrules#comment-555 Jonathan, I hear you man and I totally agree. Sometimes, however, people need it spelled out in more detail. Besides, couldn't let such an oportunity to show some WTF's I've seen around pass :) Jonathan,
I hear you man and I totally agree. Sometimes, however, people need it spelled out in more detail. Besides, couldn’t let such an oportunity to show some WTF’s I’ve seen around pass

]]> http://winterdom.com/2006/08/exceptionmanagementrules/comment-page-1#comment-554 Jonathan Cogley Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:33:53 +0000 http://winterdom.com/2006/08/exceptionmanagementrules#comment-554 The guidelines that we practice are - don't catch an exception you don't intend to handle (and handle doesn't mean rethrowing or swallowing it). This takes care of most of the above since in general we just don't catch it and let it bubble up to a generic error handler which notifies, logs, etc (and it has the full stack trace for our viewing pleasure). Swallowing an exception in our code bases requires a really good comment explaining exactly WHY this is necessary. We believe that having a solid well understood exception strategy across a team is a critical aspect of quality software development. The guidelines that we practice are – don’t catch an exception you don’t intend to handle (and handle doesn’t mean rethrowing or swallowing it). This takes care of most of the above since in general we just don’t catch it and let it bubble up to a generic error handler which notifies, logs, etc (and it has the full stack trace for our viewing pleasure).
Swallowing an exception in our code bases requires a really good comment explaining exactly WHY this is necessary.
We believe that having a solid well understood exception strategy across a team is a critical aspect of quality software development.

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