Handling Java exceptions can be tricky. Which Java exceptions should you catch, and which exceptions should you rethrow? And which exceptions can you ignore completely? This is a difficult skill to ...

Should I catch java.lang.Exception ? A: Handling all runtime exceptions and checked exceptions declared by a given method is not sufficient to build the ultimate defense against external failures.

Some exceptions in Java must be handled in the developer's code. Other exceptions can occur without any exception handling semantics at all. When an exception must be handled with try-and-catch ...

The new JDK 7 feature supporting handling of multiple exceptions with a single catch block might also be used in this situation, but I like this general reflection operation exception approach.