Description Johan Walles 2006-03-05 06:47:27 EST

This is a rather common construct:
throw new WhateverException();

When that exception gets thrown, the only information you have is what kind of exception it is.  In almost all cases, this would have been much better:
throw new WhateverException("The frobs are already glazed");

Then, when the exception gets thrown, you have a high level message explaining why the exception was thrown.

I'd like the JDT to be able to warn about creating new exception objects without providing a non-empty explanation string.