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best practices for custom Exceptions

Is it good/normal practice to call another class to do something from inside a customException?

I want to clearly identify to an executive thread when something goes wrong in a weblogic producer class. I was thinking about uniquely catching all the various JMS exceptions, but want to throw one unique exception identifying that the weblogic interface has encountered a problem. I was thinking about defining and throwing a custom exception, and inside that class notifying the executive/main class to do some things? Is this the correct methodology?

Am P

Refer below links useful to take decision..

http://www.wikijava.org/wiki/10_best_practices_with_Exceptions
http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/exceptions.html?page=1

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For better context of my question:
I want to create a JMS Producer class which will continually attempt to connect if it can't connect on instantiation of the object itself or if onException is called denoting a connection failure.

Is the generic example I sketched out below the correct paradigm to do so?
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public class MyProducer implements ExceptionListener {
        public MyProducer() {
                super();
                createConnection();
        }
 
        private void createConnection() {
            try {
                try {
                     // set up connection
                     // status as successful.
                } catch (NamingException ne) {
                        ne.printStackTrace(System.err);
                        throw CustomException;
                } catch (JMSException jmse) {
                        jmse.printStackTrace(System.err);
                        throw CustomException;
                }
             catch CustomException (e) {
               createConnection();
             }
 
        }
 
        public void onException(javax.jms.JMSException jsme) {
                jsme.printStackTrace();
        }
               createConnection();
        }
 
        public synchronized void publishMessage(String Text) {
          // build and send message 
       }
}

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