* ExceptionCollection provides exceptional exception collection
As perfect as we’d like to think we are, writing bug free code is an area where it can be argued that no one can be perfect – it is just too hard to create perfect code for anything beyond a really simple application. Even harder is to write correct bug free code for Web applications – the sheer complexity of the environments you have to deal with ensure that bugs will crop up.
So when bugs inevitably appear in applications that are distributed far and wide across the ‘Net what are you to do?
The answer is you need to trap and analyze the problems and rather than setting up your own system to do so, you might take a look at ExceptionCollection. It’s an exception (a.k.a. bug) logging system that’s provided free of charge by those nice folks at Promethean Personal Software (PPS). PPS also publishes the Sherpa Generative Powertool for database application development.
ExceptionCollection requires that you create a free account with Promethean’s Web site and then add three or four lines of code to your software. The system is also designed so that, should you stop using ExceptionCollection, the included reporting code in the end user’s applications won’t break.
Designed for integration with C#/VB.Net, Java, VB6, Delphi, C++, and other SOAP-enabled languages, PPS even provides a compiled component (DLL file) for .Net “so that you don’t even have to mess with SOAP and Web services,” say the developers.
Additionally, the developers say that ExceptionCollection “integrates with all kinds of applications, Web-based as well as operating system-specific (Windows, Unix, etc.).”
When exceptions are generated they are saved by the ExceptionCollection server for your perusal whenever you like.
An interesting alternative for developers as long as you trust the libraries should you use them and have no issues about the privacy of your exception data. I wonder if there’s a real business that could be founded from this concept?
