Minor Description
There are a few instances where the code catches Throwable, but fails to rethrow anything.
For example:
org.apache.commons.scxml.io.SCXMLSerializer.getTransformer()
...
} catch (Throwable t) {
return null;
}
It would be safer if the code only caught the relevant Exception(s) (and perhaps some Errors).
For example does it really make sense to catch OutOfMemory ?
In particular, the Javadoc for ThreadDeath says:
If ThreadDeath is caught by a method, it is important that it be rethrown so that the thread actually dies.