If there is a hierarchy of exceptions you can use the base class to catch all subclasses of exceptions. In the degenerate case you can catch all Java exceptions with:

Jun 10, 2012 · So, when catching exceptions you want to always catch the most specific first and then the most generic (as RuntimeException or Exception). For instance, imagine you would …

Jul 2, 2009 · In Java, is there any way to get (catch) all exceptions instead of catching the exceptions individually?

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Feb 10, 2009 · There are certain predefined exceptions in Java, which, if thrown, report that something serious has happened and you'd better improve your code, than catching them in a …

57 Why are some exceptions in Java not caught by catch (Exception ex)? This is code is completely failing out with an unhandled exception. (Java Version 1.4).

Jun 26, 2012 · You should avoid catching overly-broad Exceptions, which is what motivated the Java 7 change. Moreover you should never catch things that you are unable to deal with. …

Mar 10, 2010 · @user316117 Exception is the top class of all exceptions in Java. Catching that means you catch all possible errors. How would you know what to do in such a block? If you …

If that is true, it means all expected exceptions should be checked exceptions. What if I expect something might fail and is unrecoverable by my application, but I wish to at least throw a …

Jan 7, 2014 · By which @RC. means that there is no point catching and then immediately re-throwing the same exception without doing anything else in the meantime. You may as well …