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Discussion Forum Unit 1 Assignment 1 Subscribe HOME CONTACT US RESOURCES LINKS FACULTY MY COURSES MENU       CS 1103 Programming 2 - Term 2, 2019-2020 Search forums Assignmen... t 1 by Eric Goh (Instructor) - Thursday, 14 November 2019, 1:09 PM Who should be responsible for catching and handling exceptions: the computer or the computer program? 15 words Permalink | Reply Re: Assignment 1 by Randall Kruse - Friday, 15 November 2019, 10:54 AM The computer program deÕnes how an exception is caught and handled. An exception handling process is expressed programmatically:/ public AuthenticationResult authenticate(Credentials credentials) throws IOException { try { GetAuthenticationTokenResult result = customerRestService.getAuthenticationToken(cre dentials); return new AuthenticationResult(AuthenticationResult.SUCCESS, result.getToken()); } catch (AuthenticationFailedException ex) { // credentials failed - log and return an auth failure code LOG.error(ex); return new AuthenticationResult(ex.getResultCode()); } } I'm not quite sure how to interpret the alternative proposition, that the computer would handle the exception. The program has the context necessary to deal with the error, whereas an exceptional condition at a lower level than the application layer is more or less just going to be a car wreck [Show More]

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