MulTEx - the Multi-Tier Exception Handling Framework.

MulTEx is a simple, but powerful framework for organizing exceptions and messages is a multi-tier Java software system.

It offers the key features:

For introductory information you should first read the technical paper.

Naming conventions

The following naming conventions are used throughout the package multex.

Plans

The plans are ordered by priority (most important as No. 1)
  1. 2002-03-26 Prepared means for reporting exceptions with its complete diagnostic information in a servlet/JSP application.
  2. 2003-05-28 Add a class SwingAction with a method actionPerformedWithThrows, which will extend javax.swing.AbstractAction and report any exception coming from lower layers. Do some analogous for class Action in JSP/Struts.
  3. 2002-04-20 Add buttons for printing or copying the contents of the message window of multex.Awt; place the buttons before the message TextArea.
  4. 2002-07-02 Include private attributes of type Throwable into the {@link multex.ReflectionCauseGetter} in order to get the cause for exceptions like java.rmi.ConnectException, which do not have a cause getter before JDK 1.4.

Version history

@author Christoph Knabe, TFH Berlin, 1999-2000 Copyrighted