[jboss-dev] throws Throwable

What's the use case for having a public method: doSomething(Object someArgs...) throws Throwable ? Most of the time the user of such a facility will do: catch(Throwable t) { throw new RuntimeException(t); } This leads to interesting situations whenever an ThreadDeath or VirtualMachineError (/OOM) is thrown. (Note that ThreadDeath should never occur, but that's another story.) I think it's just laziness on the part of the facilitator to not properly handle exceptions and that this construct should be abolished. Carlo