>Exceptions cause problems in other ways (especially when they are allowed to escape up the stack), business logic shouldn't be handling FileNotFoundException t

>Exceptions cause problems in other ways (especially when they are allowed to escape up the stack), business logic shouldn't be handling FileNotFoundException that was thrown 6 layers away. So instead all 6 layers should have to know about it in addition to business logic? In most cases you can't really ignore the fact that a file didn't exist in your business logic.