Determining Exception in finally clause

Question

Is it possible to determine if an Exception has been thrown in a finally clause?
This is in reaction to the anti-pattern log and throw.
Bad:
try
    someCall();
catch (someException e)
    log(e.getMessage());
    throw someException("oops", e);
}What I want:
try
    someCall();
finally
    boolean exceptionThrown = magicHere();
    if (exceptionThrown)
        // get the exception message, log the message
}of course, this may be an anti-pattern as well.

Answer 1

The 'Log and throw' antipattern just says that you should either log or throw, not both, i.e. that somebody somewhere must catch and absorb the exception, log it, and do something about it, and that that somebody should be unique. Logging it more than once doesn't add anything useful to the log and it also destroys the original stack trace. If you need to know whether an exception occurred here, the antipattern implies that you should logging it here and doing something about it here.
But I agree that antipatterns aren't set in stone, and once you set out the underlying assumptions as above it is easy to devise counter-examples where they don't apply.