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I’m developing a small swing application, and I’m not sure if I should use the
printStackTrace().
If I get an exception I show a user via JOptionPane a message, e.g: file not found etc.
But at the same time, I’m using the printStackTrace(), I wasn’t sure about neither showing the stack trace to a user nor not to print anything…just in case it would be needed.
Can I leave the printStackTrace there or why not to?
thank you for advice.
Log stack traces to a log file they wont mean anything to the end user anyway
Print meaningful error messages to users.
i.e File not found etc