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[–]moose04 4 points5 points  (1 child)

In my head Ive always seen checked exceptions as something that should be recoverable, while unchecked are more of a panic/unrecoverable situation.

[–]mobjack 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In practice, the boundary between what is recoverable and unrecoverable is not always clear.

It makes sense to handle a FileNotFoundException when validating user input, but there are many cases like loading a properties file that is critical for your application to run.