Re: Exceptions in Java SAX Implementation

Don Park (donpark@quake.net)
Wed, 7 Jan 1998 20:28:28 -0800


David,

>Does it make sense, then, simply to allow every method in the SAX/Java
>interfaces to throw java.lang.Exception?
>
> package org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler {
> public void startDocument () throws java.lang.Exception;
> public void endDocument () throws java.lang.Exception;
> /* etc. */
> }

Allowing every method in SAX interfaces to throw java.lang.Exception
basically disables Java compile-time exception checking. I do not think
this is a good idea.

How about defining ApplicationException class which is basicaly an exception
container?

public void startDocument () throws ApplicationException {
try {
// some IO
}
catch (Exception ex) {
throw new ApplicationException(ex);
}
}

Don Park