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Design Error Handling in Applications

You are responsible for designing in the capture and reporting of application errors. Application errors include not found conditions, validation errors, and security violations.

Note: This discussion assumes you are using the distributed process model design approach for client/server. This model implies that business logic is split between a client procedure supporting primarily presentation and a server procedure primarily supporting data access. Your distributed process model could be implemented across multiple platforms or reside entirely on the workstation. (If the application executes entirely on the workstation, it will use remote data services to access data.)

There are two types of application errors that need to be captured when implementing client/server applications using the distributed process model:

• Client errors (those captured in the client procedure)
• Server errors (those captured in the server procedure)