Classification

Overview

The application generates an exception of a general type (Exception or ApplicationException) making it difficult to diagnose and recover from errors.

It is recommended to take full advantage of the C@ exception mechanism for error handling, which allows to accurately determine the type of exception in order to then process it in the proper catch-block.

References

1. CWE-397: Declaration of Throws for Generic Exception
2. Dont Throw Generic Exceptions - c2.com
3. Creating and Throwing Exceptions