Name: jl125535 Date: 02/04/2004


A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
Currently, if an exception, A, occurs withing a try block, and then an exception B occurs in a finally block, then exception A is completely lost. Programmers can use manual exception chaining in situations where an exception may be thrown in a finally block. However, this can make the code very messy.

JUSTIFICATION :
  From a debugging standpoint it would be useful to see the information from both exceptions without the need to add extra lines of code to do exception chaining.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
I would Java to automatically using exception chaining behind the scenes in a situation where an exception occurs in a try block and a finally block.

ACTUAL -

So in the situation where a try block throws Exception A, and a finally block throws Exception B, if exception A and B occur then exception B is thrown with Exception A as its init cause.

CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
Use manual exception chaining.
(Incident Review ID: 237013)
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