I wrote about some of this on my blog back in Feb. ( http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com/blog/hot-potato-thoughts-on-java-exceptions-and-error-handling http://www.j

I wrote about some of this on my blog back in Feb. ( http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com/blog/hot-potato-thoughts-on-java-exceptions-and-error-handling http://www.jayfuerstenberg.com/blog/hot-potato-thoughts-on-j... ) Java's exceptions cause Java applications to break often. It's not something that Java engineers want to hear but it's true.