Now I know that even blank lines can throw an exception... I found this pearl in a ServletContextListener class.

	public void contextDestroyed(ServletContextEvent sce)
	{
		try 
		{
			
		} 
		catch (Exception e) 
		{
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

That's because the same class has a method without a name, as in

// called whenever a blank line is encountered
protected void /*nameless*/ () throws Exception {
    ...
}

Probably the application is expected to work in a multithreaded environment.

Thus, an exception may occur in some other part of the program while the blank line is being executed.

And who knows, maybe this exception is so huge as to occupy several threads at once? In fact, it would be safer to write

catch (Exception[ ] theWholeBunch)

or

while( catch( Exception) ) { /*don't panic*/ }  

to rescue other threads as well. 

IMil:

Probably the application is expected to work in a multithreaded environment.

Thus, an exception may occur in some other part of the program while the blank line is being executed.

IMil:

Probably the application is expected to work in a multithreaded environment.

Thus, an exception may occur in some other part of the program while the blank line is being executed.

Either you fail at humour or you fail at Java. 

Physics Phil:

Either you fail at humour or you fail at Java. 

I think both you and Belgarion fail at humor.

There is no way he is serious. It is obviously a joke to follow AmmoQ's.

apetrelli:

Now I know that even blank lines can throw an exception... I found this pearl in a ServletContextListener class.

 That's not perl, it's Java!

*crickets* 

IMil:

while( catch( Exception) ) { /*don't panic*/ } 

to rescue other threads as well.

 100.times { puts "I'll never skip <irony> tags again" }

IMil:

 100.times { puts "I'll never skip <irony> tags again" }

Damn you with your ruby-goodness! Don't infringe on our java cult!

Duplication Prevention Bot is back in action!

Enjoy your consequences.

Spectre:

Enjoy your consequences.

OP SUCKS YAK NUTS!!!1!!!!

TRWTF is using Java to catch Whitespace's exceptions.

dlikhten:

IMil:

 100.times { puts "I'll never skip <irony> tags again" }

 

Damn you with your ruby-goodness! Don't infringe on our java cult!

Oh, shut up. The real WTF is that Java was used in the original sample.

In Ruby, the same could have been achieved with metaprogramming in one line or even less!

ammoQ:

That's because the same class has a method without a name

IMil:

In Ruby, the same could have been achieved with metaprogramming in one line or even less!