The OpenEdge Hive

Bruce Gruenbaum:
Let me start out by saying that this is service that hitherto has not worked as well for me in OpenEdge as it does in Java/.NET. In a nutshell, it is a service that is responsible for receiving exceptions that have been caught somewhere. The Exception Handling Service receives the exception, logs it to an exception log and then looks for a class that has been designed to process the exception in some way. The trick is to have a standard way of processing all exceptions so that the user never experiences a Java/C#/OpenEdge exception/error condition that has not been handled.

Thomas Mercer-Hursh:
We could use a little more help from PSC on this score, but we are certainly closer than we were to making it possible. To be sure, it is a difficult area to design well, especially since we haven't been given the ability to provide multiple exceptions on a single throw. I have been thinking that I should do a new instance of my exception and condition handling classes in the context of the 10.1C exception handling to help support richer use.

Initial content adapted from an exchange on PEG