swing uncaughtexceptionhandler

Question

I am trying to build a general exception handler for a swing application as described here: http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue081.html

I work in jython (pyt

Answer 1

If you have Java 5 or higher, you can also use Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(), which is also described in a newer "Java Specialists' Newsletter":

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue089.html

And here is the newest Java 7 version:

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue196.html

Also see this: Why bother with setting the "sun.awt.exception.handler" property?

EDIT: This is how I use Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler (in Java...):

public static void setupGlobalExceptionHandling() {
    Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler(new Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler() {
        @Override
        public void uncaughtException(Thread t, Throwable e) {
            handleException(e);
        }
    });
}