Java return value (in try/catch clause)

Question

everyone. I have a rookie question about the returning value in java. Here\'s my code.

@Override
public long addDrugTreatment(long id, String diagnosis, Stri         


        

Answer 1

Let's imagine a JMSException was thrown:

@Override
public long addDrugTreatment(long id, String diagnosis, String drug,
        float dosage) throws PatientNotFoundExn {
    try {
        Patient patient = patientDAO.getPatientByDbId(id);
        long tid = patient.addDrugTreatment(diagnosis, drug, dosage);

        Connection treatmentConn = treatmentConnFactory.createConnection();
        //JMS thrown above. No code from here gets executed
    } catch (PatientExn e) {
        throw new PatientNotFoundExn(e.toString());
    } catch (JMSException e) {
        logger.severe("JMS Error: " + e);
    }
}

In the above if a JMSException is thrown no part of the code returns a long.