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Exceptions: Don't get thrown for a loss

Catch the differences between checked and runtime exceptions

By Tony Sintes, JavaWorld.com, 02/08/02

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Catching runtime exceptions also leads to a worse problem: what exceptions do you catch, and when do you catch them? Runtime exceptions are undeclared, so how do you know what you should catch? How do you know there's an exception to catch? Certainly you wouldn't place try/catch blocks around every method call and array access you perform?

About the author

Tony Sintes is an independent consultant and founder of First Class Consulting, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in bridging disparate enterprise systems and training. Outside of First Class Consulting, Tony is an active freelance writer, as well as author of Sams Teach Yourself Object-Oriented Programming in 21 Days (Sams, 2001; ISBN: 0672321092).