[jira] Resolved: (AXIS-2310) Incorrect catching of java.lang.Error subclasses

["Jarek Gawor (JIRA)" <ax...@ws.apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2310?page=all ]
     
Jarek Gawor resolved AXIS-2310:
-------------------------------

    Fix Version: current (nightly)
     Resolution: Fixed

Fix committed to trunk.

> Incorrect catching of java.lang.Error subclasses
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: AXIS-2310
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS-2310
>      Project: Apache Axis
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: WSDL processing
>     Versions: 1.3
>  Environment: Any/all
>     Reporter: J Ross Nicoll
>      Fix For: current (nightly)

>
> Axis catches java.lang.Throwable in several places, which is the superclass of Error. This means that errors such as OutOfMemoryError and ThreadDeath are caught. According to the Java virtual machine:
> "The class Error and its subclasses are exceptions from which ordinary programs are not ordinarily expected to recover."
> In specific, src/org/apache/axis/wsdl/toJava/JavaStubWriter.java line 406:
>         pw.println("        catch (java.lang.Throwable _t) {");
> should be:
>         pw.println("        catch (java.lang.Exception _e) {");
> so that ThreadDeath is not caught, as catching it means that threads never exit properly (see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/ThreadDeath.html).
> However, there are likely to be other points where this is an issue, that I haven't found yet, and checking the code would probably be a good idea...

-- 
This message is automatically generated by JIRA.
-
If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators:
   http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa
-
For more information on JIRA, see:
   http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira