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Friday, April 14, 2006

Exception-Handling Antipatterns

Article by Tim McCune, 5 pages, 20 minutes.
This article is about bad exception handling practices we've all seen and maybe even been guilty of. It's mostly a listing of such patterns as "swallow the exception without logging", "log and rethrow" and "throws Exception". The naming of these patterns is nice and I'm sure a few of then will even stick. What I missed was more clarification about why certain patterns are bad. There is a short explanation, but some deeper material would have been useful.

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