Generic Exception handler in java

Question

We have developed a client java application with our own exception hierarchy derived from java.lang.exception. We raise our own exception in case of error scenarios. But there is one additional thing which we want to do:
1. When ever any exception is raised in our exception we want to do some generic exception handling (like kicking of some module which collects the log files and send it to the administrator.
2. We want the above activity to happen also when any runtime exception is raised. We are not catching any runtime exception and we have no handle for this.
How should we go about this. Can we write a very low-level generic exception handler?
We do not want to have done at every catch block we have in our code. I mean we want to have some hook at a very generic place.
Let me know if some body can be help me on this.

Answer 1

As far as I know, for exceptions that are caught, you must make a call to a generic handler in the catch block, or you may rethrow the exception as a RuntimeException, and let it propagate.
For RuntimeExceptions and Errors in threads that you create, the easiest way to solve this is to subclass ThreadGroup, override uncaughtException with the appropriate code, and create all your threads in this group. For a thread like main, have the first thing in the thread be the creation of a new thread in the new group, then pass control to that thread. For fixed threads, like the event queue, someone had a suggestion already. Note that uncaughtException is only called just before the thread ends, so an exception that shouldn't end the thread should be handled seperately.