Rethrow HibernateException instead of "catch and log only" SQLException. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-2233 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2233 Project: Hibernate3 Type: Improvement Components: core Versions: 3.2.0.ga Environment: Hibernate v 3.2.0, October 16, 2006, HSQLDB 1.8.0.7 (Using In-process mode) Reporter: Mark Gorokhov Steps to reproduce: AnnotationConfiguration ac = new AnnotationConfiguration(); ac.addAnnotatedClass(Foo.class); // with annotations ac.setProperty(Environment.URL, "jdbc:hsqldb:file:C:\\abc\\dbTest"); ac.setProperty(Environment.DRIVER, "org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver"); ac.setProperty(Environment.USER, "wrong_user"); // note: not "sa" user ac.setProperty(Environment.PASS, "bad"); ac.setProperty(Environment.DIALECT, "org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect"); ac.setProperty(Environment.CACHE_PROVIDER,"org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider"); ac.setProperty(Environment.HBM2DDL_AUTO, "update"); // creates missing DB SessionFactory sessionFactory = ac.buildSessionFactory(); There are *logged* SQLExceptions "User not found" but ac.buildSessionFactory() does not *throw* any exceptions. SessionFactory is not functional but there are no exceptions thrown! Probably there are other places in the code when exception is logged but not rethrown. Exception in a log is useless because client code does not know about exception and does not report problem to a user and does not make attempts to recover. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira