Re: [jboss-dev] throws Throwable

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. E.g. void storeMessage(Message message) throws Throwable { } If that method fails in any way, even if it throw a RuntimeException or Error then we need to handle it, since it would be a major problem if the message didn't get saved. The method could be declared to not throw Throwable and the caller would just have to remember to catch (Throwable) but declaring the method as throws Throwable prevents the possibility of the caller from forgetting to do so.