"Best Practice" for retrying a try / catch statement

Question

given:

public void connect() {
    try {
        connect_to_server();
    } catch (ServerUnavailableException ex){
        System.out.print("server unavailable");
    }
}

I would like to try, and retry, connecting to the server 3 times before giving up.

I could put the entire try/catch in, say, a for loop, but would this fit with Java's 'Best Practices'. From what I recall on the topic, this would be a misuse of try/catch statements. Then again, I could be entirely wrong. What do you think?

It would be better if you implement `connect_to_server()` to throw exception after failing for the third time. Also, method name as `connectToServer()` is convention in java. — TheKojuEffect, Sep 03 '13 at 13:57

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '13 at 13:54

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It would be better if you implement connect_to_server() to throw exception after failing for the third time.

Also, method name as connectToServer() is convention in java.

answered Sep 03 '13 at 13:54

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