Re: catching exceptions in a catch block

crazy fo sheezy wrote:


You have to accept that you can't easily log errors caused by being
unable to write to the log file. Given this, you can write a logging
class:

    public class Log
    {
            private String logFile;

            public void logException(Exception ex)
            {
                   try
                   {
                         PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(new
BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(logFile));
                         e.printStackTrace(pw);
                        pw.close();
                    }
                    catch (Exception ex)
                    {
                        ; // what can you do?
                    }
                }
        }

and use this class to do all your logging. if you decide to, say,
have another file that collects all first-level logging errors, append
to it in the catch block (and ingore errors writing to it.) What
might work even better is to use a logging framework that handles all
of this for you, say java.util.logging.