On Thursday, October 2, 2003 at 19:21:46 (-0400) Harish Krishnaswamy writes: >That would work. I had another idea on my way home. What if the >constructRegistry threw an exception if there was any problem in the >construction, that is after the registry is built? That way the >application can decide what to do. What do you think about that? Not to mention that throwing a checked exception is not the same as "crashing". Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commons-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commons-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org