Question

I have a method which throws subclasses of Exception. If I am performing the same catch functionality for each sub-class of Exception that’s causght is it bad practice to just catch the Exceptions class or should I catch each exception individually ?

Answer 1

Yes, it’s bad practice, because it makes the catch block catch runtime exceptions that shouldn’t be caught.

If you use Java 7, you can use

catch (SomeException | SomeOtherException | YetAnotherException e) {
    ...
}