> this construct completely undermines the whole purpose of it Absolutely, a bad design that says more about the designer of that piece of code, than the lang

> this construct completely undermines the whole purpose of it Absolutely, a bad design that says more about the designer of that piece of code, than the language (Java). Error handling can and should be discussed, but I hope people don't use this as an example to illustrate how bad Java checked exceptions are. This is just some nonsense that can be constructed when you misunderstand underlying concepts, which is possible in any language.