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Developing AppServer Applications
Programming the AppServer : Handling conditions and returning values : Throwing error objects to the client
 

Throwing error objects to the client

Error objects can be thrown from an AppServer to an ABL client, and those errors are handled in the same way as errors thrown from a locally called procedure. The objects themselves are serialized when thrown from the AppServer and then reconstructed on the client, and they are subject to the same rules for serialization as all other class-based objects passed between an AppServer and ABL Client. In particular, any user-defined class (such as a subclass derived from Progress.Lang.AppError) must be defined as SERIALIZABLE. See Passing class-based objects as parameters between an AppServer and an ABL client for more information.
For more information on structured error handling and error objects, see OpenEdge Development: Error Handling.