Re: [jboss-dev] throws Throwable

Tim Fox wrote: > David M. Lloyd wrote: >> On 05/05/2009 03:02 AM, Carlo de Wolf wrote: >>> What's the use case for having a public method: doSomething(Object >>> someArgs...) throws Throwable ? >> >> No valid use cases exist afaik. Any method that throws Throwable >> should die, if it's within our power to kill it. > Declaring a method as "throws Throwable" forces the caller to handle > the exception even if the exception/error thrown is unchecked. Then do throws RuntimeException Error's are *nonrecoverable* since they are OutOfMemory or hard VM errors.No client can ever recover sanely.