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Re: Quick Error Handling Question

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Novice <novice@example..com> wrote in
news:XnsA00CCE30F52F5jpnasty@94.75.214.39: 

> I'm trying to learn more about Error Handling. I've read the Java
> Tutorial topic on it, as well as Bloch's Effective Java (2nd edition)
> tips on it. I've started on Robust Java by Stephen Stelting too. I
> know I'm going to have more questions later but one is bugging me
> right now and I'm not seeing it mentioned anywhere so let me ask now.
> 
> 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? 
> 

Thanks to all who replied to my question.

Some of you already know this but for the sake of those who don't, this 
was essentially a followup to the lengthy "Aspect Questions?" thread from 
last week which started out as a general question about AspectJ but then 
mutated into a general discussion of logging (for the most part). We went 
over a lot of conceptual stuff and I got a lot of misconceptions sorted 
out. I'm trying to apply that new knowledge to my existing programs now 
and found that I couldn't see anything in what I was reading about error 
handling that said whether any attempt should be made to log stacktraces 
or whether I could safely assume that putting them on the console would 
be sufficient. This was very much intended to be a general "best 
practices" kind of question but perhaps that wasn't as clear as it could 
have been.

The main thing I've learned from your replies is that it is rarely wrong 
to log something that may be available from another source, even if it is 
redundant, and that it is probably NOT safe to assume that a console that 
might contain stacktraces is always going to be accessible to those who 
need it. I had anticipated the first from the other thread and suspected 
the second. Your confirmations were very helpful. 

Thanks again!

-- 
Novice

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