Using e.printStackTrace() in Java

Question

This is probably a newbie question, but hope you can help me. :) I have something like this:

try
{ 
//try to do something there
}
catch (IOException e)
{
//handl         


        

Answer 1

e.printStackTrace();

Is not good practice because it prints in the default ErrorStream, which most of the times is the console!

NetBeans should be warning you about that. The good practice about it, is logging the message. Follow same reference:

http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/exceptions.html

EDIT See first comment bellow to more info.