Free Web-Based Exception Reporting

Tsar writes "Promethean Personal Software (makers of Sherpa, a code generating tool for db apps) have quietly released ExceptionCollection, a free (as in beer) online service for developers using any SOAP-enabled environment. You sign up on the site, download their component, add three or four lines of code to your app, and any exceptions thrown by your users get logged at ExceptionCollection.com for your later perusal (the last 100 anyway). There are several options, like whether reporting requires user approval. Is this as cool as it looks, or a solution in search of a problem?"

exceptions? don't use 'em

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't like exceptions because you have to catch them. Exception based coding is for amateurs.

Real professionals like me, who graduated at the top of his class from Rockhurst College in Kansas City, a top college - pass return codes around rather than do all that exception baloney.

And it is some big time BALONEY.

Re:exceptions? don't use 'em

[mysticwhiskey]

And the exception's travelling far out-field, up, up , up! Yes, there's the AC, he's under it, almost a certain catch! NO! He doesn't catch it! What's this? He writing on post-it note! He hands it to the umpire... let's switch to the umpire-cam... and the result is... "Code -99 : Exception not caught, glove object not instantiated".

Re:[sarcasm]what a great idea![/sarcasm]

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you being sarcastic?

solution vs problem?

[AnObfuscator]

is this as cool as it looks, or a solution in search of a problem?

Or? What kind of nerd ARE you?! Duh, it's BOTH!

In fact, a good case could be made that it looks so damn cool BECAUSE it is a solution in search of a problem!

GET DOWNSTAIRS AND WASH MUMS CAR !

[Anonymous Coward]

if you are going to take the day off school you can start by helping your mum

Re:exceptions? don't use 'em

[Fred_A]

Well, as long as people from Kansas use more SOAP, I'm all for it.

(ducks and runs)

An exception has occured

[DeadSea]

Exception: Could not handle error: an additonal exception was encountered
at com.example.util.BaseExceptionHandler() Line 450
...
Root Cause:
OutOfMemoryError: Out of memory during exception construction
at Exception() Line 5
...
Root Cause:
IOException: Could not connect to exceptionollection.com
at com.ExceptionCollection.reportException() Line 127
...
Root Cause:
ApplicationException: HelloWorld program is too simple
at com.example.webapp.HelloWorld.print() Line 907
...

Re:Only 100 exceptions?

[danhirsch]

"No, ma'am. Had you read my post you'd see that I had said 5 or 6 million hits. Now consider that even just 1% of those 5 million hits throw an exception. That's 50 000 exceptions." If you are even throwing 5k execptions in a day on an ENTERPRISE site...you have more problems to deal with...like learning how to CODE a stable site. If you had a common enough exception for 5000...your going to get allot more than that. Even with 5000 exceptions bad bad things are happening. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies. Rivers and seas boiling. Forty years of darkness. Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave. Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together - mass hysteria!

Re:Only 100 exceptions?

[tgd]

Do not put a link to this post on your resume.

Trust me.

Re:[sarcasm]what a great idea![/sarcasm]

[flatface]

[Informative]Yes he is.[/Informative]

Exceptions?

[irablum]

I don't know about you guys, but I don't have any bugs in my code. It works perfectly the first time. No doubt. Never happens. Nothing ever breaks. Ever.
hah.
so there.

at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.fill(InflaterInp utStream.java:215)
                at java.util.zip.InflaterInputStream.read(InflaterInp utStream.java:134)
                at java.util.zip.ZipInputStream.read(ZipInputStream.j ava:139)
                at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(FilterInputStream.j ava:90)
                at jrunx.util.JarUtils.expandJar(JarUtils.java:110)
                at jrunx.util.JarUtils.expandJar(JarUtils.java:142)
                at jrunx.util.URLUtil.makeExpandedCopy(URLUtil.java:1 07)
                at jrunx.util.URLUtil.makeExpandedLocalCopy(URLUtil.j ava:70)
                at jrun.deployment.DeployerService.createWatchedDeplo yment(DeployerService.java:213)
                at jrun.deployment.DeployerService.deploy(DeployerSer vice.java:430)
                at jrun.deployment.DeployerService.redeploy(DeployerS ervice.java:1407)
                at jrun.deployment.DeployerService.redeployChanged(De ployerService.java:872)
                at jrun.deployment.DeployerService.run(DeployerServic e.java:890)
                at jrunx.scheduler.SchedulerService.invokeRunnable(Sc hedulerService.java:223)
                at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRu nnable(ThreadPool.java:426)
                at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java :66)

damnit