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Re: Quick Error Handling Question

Date	2012-03-04 20:29 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Quick Error Handling Question
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On 3/4/2012 8:20 PM, Peter Duniho wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 01:10:13 +0000 (UTC), Novice wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> Should I write stacktraces from my checked and unchecked exceptions to my
>> log? Or just assume that all stacktraces will be written to the console and
>> the console will always be accessible to everyone who needs it?
>
> Only you can answer that question.  No one here knows how your program is
> going to be used, never mind whether such an assumption would be valid.
>
> It's certainly not valid for _all_ Java programs.  But who knows?  Maybe
> yours is special somehow.

I would put it exactly the opposite.

The OP does not know if the stack trace could be
useful one day out in the future.

And therefore he should log it.

Arne

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  Re: Quick Error Handling Question Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-03-04 17:20 -0800
    Re: Quick Error Handling Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 20:29 -0500
      Re: Quick Error Handling Question Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-03-04 17:35 -0800
        Re: Quick Error Handling Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 20:58 -0500
          Re: Quick Error Handling Question Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-03-04 18:11 -0800
            Re: Quick Error Handling Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 21:42 -0500
              Re: Quick Error Handling Question Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-03-04 19:26 -0800
                Re: Quick Error Handling Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 22:44 -0500
                Re: Quick Error Handling Question Peter Duniho <NpOeStPeAdM@NnOwSlPiAnMk.com> - 2012-03-04 21:20 -0800
                Re: Quick Error Handling Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-09 21:26 -0500
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  Re: Quick Error Handling Question Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-03-04 21:01 -0500
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