Catching Throwable in Blackberry Java: Good Idea?
I often see catch clauses for Throwable in Blackberry documentation, such as the Network API docs . My sense is that this is not generally a good practice in Java. Is there a reason for this in Blackberry programming? Does it have to do with stack trace generation for Throwables? Michael Donohue When you catch Throwable in a BlackBerry app, not only does it preserve the stack trace, it saves that stack trace in the device event log. There is no way for an app to get a stack trace itself , so unfortunately you can't automatically collect stack traces. To view the stack trace, you pull up the