Deal with Java exceptions and listeners

[mtablado]

I'm working on the way of ease the development for developers with an event that handles both java and job errors so that the core of my activiti application could notify a group of users every time a critical error occurr.

I have read the topic below and I would want to ask if you have reconsidered an update so that developers don't need to modify transitions in tasks code for java exceptions.

http://forums.activiti.org/content/catch-java-servicetask-exceptions-using-erroreventdefinition

Another approach that I am thinking to apply is an Spring Aspect that deals with exceptions, but I don't know if I will be able to access the proccess instance to get the necessary information for my notification. ¿What do you think?

Thanks in advance.

[jbarrez]

If your use case is notifying someone on exception, one direction you could look into is adding a new command interceptor, that catches all exceptions and sends out an email. This would catch exceptions engine wide.