Catching an exception and throwing the original away means that you have lost the call stack. You should either log it, or wrap the entire stack trace into the new exception. While writing the stack trace to standard output may not be what you really want (does SOAP have a log file?), you have introduced a more serious problem: you have no way to determine the root cause of the original exception in the code introduced below.
When you wrap one exception into another, the value of printing/logging the stack trace can be debated since you are propogating the original to the final "catch". <ras> ******************************************* Richard A. Sitze [EMAIL PROTECTED] rg To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: 05/02/2002 01:43 Subject: cvs commit: PM xml-soap/java/src/org/apache/soap/server/http Please respond MessageRouterServlet.java RPCRouterServlet.java to soap-dev duftler 02/05/02 11:43:30 Modified: java/src/org/apache/soap/server/http MessageRouterServlet.java RPCRouterServlet.java Log: Removed 2 server-side stack traces where exceptions were also being propagated. For more info, see: http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4166 Submitted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reviewed by: Matthew J. Duftler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Revision Changes Path 1.30 +0 -2 xml-soap/java/src/org/apache/soap/server/http/MessageRouterServlet.java Index: MessageRouterServlet.java =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-soap/java/src/org/apache/soap/server/http/MessageRouterServlet.java,v retrieving revision 1.29 retrieving revision 1.30 diff -u -r1.29 -r1.30 --- MessageRouterServlet.java 9 Jul 2001 23:24:37 -0000 1.29 +++ MessageRouterServlet.java 2 May 2002 18:43:30 -0000 1.30 @@ -331,10 +331,8 @@ OutputStream outStream = res.getOutputStream(); sres.writeTo(outStream); } - // NOTE: fix this to return server-side SOAP exceptions instead. catch (Exception e) { - e.printStackTrace(); throw new ServletException ("Error building response envelope: " + e); } } 1.34 +0 -2 xml-soap/java/src/org/apache/soap/server/http/RPCRouterServlet.java Index: RPCRouterServlet.java =================================================================== RCS file: /home/cvs/xml-soap/java/src/org/apache/soap/server/http/RPCRouterServlet.java,v retrieving revision 1.33 retrieving revision 1.34 diff -u -r1.33 -r1.34 --- RPCRouterServlet.java 9 Jul 2001 23:24:38 -0000 1.33 +++ RPCRouterServlet.java 2 May 2002 18:43:30 -0000 1.34 @@ -347,10 +347,8 @@ OutputStream outStream = res.getOutputStream(); sres.writeTo(outStream); } - // NOTE: fix this to return server-side SOAP exceptions instead. catch (Exception e) { - e.printStackTrace(); throw new ServletException ("Error building response envelope: " + e); } }