New MVC GSOC 2014

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/joomla-dev-cms/AH6piuw2IR0

http://gwilson.org/index.php/new-mvc
$this->getModel should throw the exception. And if $this->getModel throws and exception, it shouldn't be caught just to throw it again. You achieve the same thing with the below code.

    $model = $this->getModel();