Why is the two exception types in Java named “checked” and “unchecked”? What is the reason behind those names?
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Why is the two exception types in Java named “checked” and “unchecked”? What is the reason behind those names?
If you call a method which is declared to throw a checked exception (such as
IOException), the compiler will check that you’re either catching it or declaring that you rethrow it. Likewise, in order to throw such a checked exception in the first place, the compiler checks that you’ve declared it as part of the method signature.Basically, it’s a little bit like type checking, except in terms of which exceptions can be thrown by a method.
The compiler doesn’t perform any checking for unchecked exceptions – so they can be thrown by any method, without the method declaring them.