RMI and exception propagation

[Karl Fu]

Hi everyone,

I am new to this forum and I have just started on my assignment.
Will exceptions from server propagated through RMI to the client ?
I wanta know if I should catch the Database exception at my DataDBImpl class. I don't really want to declare the DataBase exception in my interface class because i think it will make the interface to be become less "general"
Please give me some feedback,
Thank you

[Dilip kumar]

I feel the application should notify all errors to users. They should be aware the application is no longer fully functional due to some error.

[Karl Fu]

So it means that exception does propagate from server to client through rmi and I should catch the exception in my swing client, am i correct ?

[Doug Melzer]

Yes, for instance if you attempt to modify a record that has been deleted you would want to notify your user, so that they'll know why the modification failed.