Whats the difference between a transient and non-transient exception?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1314617 Created: Sep 30, 2006 Author: John Zukowski (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=7) Subclasses of SQLException have two types, transient and non-transient. Transient exceptions are those that when retried could succeed without changing anything. Non-transient exceptions are those that will fail again on retry until the underlying cause of the problem is corrected.