Exception Handling in ABAP OO and Workflow

[Alon Raskin]

So I finally took the plunge and created my first ABAP OO Workflow.
 
I implemented a class which inherits from IF_WORKFLOW, BI_PERSISTENT and BI_OBJECT.
 
Everything was going well till I tried to raise an exception from my method using the standard exception classes. Here is an excerpt from my code...
 
...
      IF sy-subrc <> 0.
      RAISE EXCEPTION type cx_bo_application.
    ENDIF. 
...
 
When I compile I get the error saying that You cannot generate instances of the abstract class 'cx_bo_application'. I can see that the instantiation scope is marked as abstract but surely I don't have define a concrete child class of cx_bo_application for every exception that I want to raise? Or do I just need to do one per workflow (seems redundant).
 
Oh and I went to the method definition and checked the exception classes checkbox (in the class builder) and pasted in cx_bo_application. It seemed happy with that but it didn't make my syntax error go away.
 
Perhaps I am using the wrong syntax in the method ? I checked OSS... nothing. I checked SDN... nothing.
 
I am using ECC 6.0 with SAP_BASIS and SAP_ABA release 7.00
 
I will keep trying other things but I welcome your comments.
 
Alon
 
 
Your comments are welcome.
 
 
 
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