http://www.michaelstudman.com/fullfathomfive/articles/2006/03/03/the-true-cost-of-exceptions en-us 40 the blog of Michael Studman Exception-throwing causing your application to run slower than molasses? Exception-wrapping causing you to loose the original problem like the proverbial needle in the haystack? Who cares? The true cost of exceptions is that you can never type "exchange" or "exchequer" or any other word starting with "exc" without your finger memory first overruling you.<br /> Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:59:00 -0500 urn:uuid:2cf5e3a9-4c65-4ef5-8d1f-c9242bd600a5 Michael Studman http://www.michaelstudman.com/fullfathomfive/articles/2006/03/03/the-true-cost-of-exceptions Java Java/J2EE codegargle http://www.michaelstudman.com/fullfathomfive/articles/trackback/8