The result of an Invocation. There are two types of result:
- normal - indicating the operation completed normally (e.g. the method returned)
- exception - indicating the operation completed abnormally (e.g. the method threw a checked exception)
Note that these should both be considered a normal completion of the operation by the container. Abnormal completions, such as a RuntimeException or Error from the invocation, or any problem in the interceptor chain itself, should result in a Throwable being thrown up the chain rather than being contained in this result.
This distinction mirrors the semantics for EJB invocations, where a business method is considered to have completed successfuly even if it throws declared Exception - the Exception there is indicating a business level issue and not a system problem.
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