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From: Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid>
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Subject: Re: email from catch or exception
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On 12/11/2013 9:09 PM, Eric Sosman wrote:
> On 12/11/2013 6:23 PM, RVic wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:55:34 PM UTC-5, RVic wrote:
>>> Is anyone aware of a public domain package that can email you on an
>>> error, include the stack trace or log, whenever an exception occurs?
>>> Thank you, RVic
>>
>> Looking to send an email on exceptions that are caught, and a general
>> one for those that are uncaught.
>>
>> I dont mind if there are a ton of emails!
>
>      I honestly do not know how many exceptions are thrown each
> second in a "typical" Java program.  [...]

... but I found a twelve-year-old paper about optimizing both
the exceptional and unexceptional execution paths ("A Study of
Exception Handling and Its Dynamic Optimization in Java," by
Ogasawara, Komatsu, and Nakatani).  It contains a table counting
how many exceptions are thrown by various programs.  Some excerpts:

     - Web browser opening one (2001-vintage) page: 2,892 exceptions
     - MP3 player starting and loading one file: 8,205 exceptions
     - Parse one XML file (size? complexity?): 17,640 exceptions
     - One program in SPECjvm98 (now obsolete): 242,318 exceptions

     Now: Speaking slowly, distinctly, and directly into the
carnation in my buttonhole, explain once again that you "dont
mind if there are a ton of emails."

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid