RE: [cinjug-users] Brandan Jones Presentation

["Forsythe, Brian" <Brian.Forsythe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A few salient points re the discussion that sometimes get forgotten in the mix 
(or are misunderstood):
 
- There's nothing stopping you from catching an unchecked exception (so your 
exception handling code will be the same if you *choose* to handle it).
 
- There's nothing stopping you from declaring an unchecked exception (i.e. 
public void myMethod() throws MyUncheckedException).  It's a best practice, 
IMHO.
 
Seems to me that our modern development tools have largely eliminated the need 
for checked exceptions.  If I were still shelling out of my text editor to 
command-line compile, I'd probably be all for them.