《有效的Java异常》一文很好地解释了什么时候使用未检查的异常，什么时候使用已检查的异常。以下是那篇文章中的一些引语，以突出其要点:

应急预案: 一种期望的条件，要求方法提供可根据该方法的预期目的来表达的替代响应。方法的调用者期望这些类型的条件，并有一个策略来处理它们。 错: 一种计划外的情况，阻止方法实现其预期目的，如果不参考方法的内部实现，则无法描述该情况。

(SO不支持表格，所以你可能想从原始页面阅读以下内容…)

Contingency Is considered to be: A part of the design Is expected to happen: Regularly but rarely Who cares about it: The upstream code that invokes the method Examples: Alternative return modes Best Mapping: A checked exception Fault Is considered to be: A nasty surprise Is expected to happen: Never Who cares about it: The people who need to fix the problem Examples: Programming bugs, hardware malfunctions, configuration mistakes, missing files, unavailable servers Best Mapping: An unchecked exception

受控异常的一个问题是，如果一个接口的一个实现使用了它，异常通常会附加到该接口的方法上。

受控异常的另一个问题是它们容易被滥用。java.sql就是一个完美的例子。连接的close()方法。它可以抛出一个SQLException，即使您已经显式地声明您已经完成了连接。close()可能传达了哪些您所关心的信息?

通常，当我关闭()一个连接*时，它看起来像这样:

try {
    conn.close();
} catch (SQLException ex) {
    // Do nothing
}

另外，不要让我开始各种解析方法和NumberFormatException... .NET的TryParse，它不抛出异常，使用起来要容易得多，以至于不得不回到Java(我工作的地方同时使用Java和c#)。

*作为额外的注释，PooledConnection的connection .close()甚至不关闭连接，但您仍然必须捕获SQLException，因为它是一个已检查异常。

在过去的三年中，我一直在与一些开发人员一起开发相对复杂的应用程序。我们有一个代码库，它经常使用检查异常，并进行适当的错误处理，而其他一些代码库则没有。

So far, I have it found easier to work with the code base with Checked Exceptions. When I am using someone else's API, it is nice that I can see exactly what kind of error conditions I can expect when I call the code and handle them properly, either by logging, displaying or ignoring (Yes, there is valid cases for ignoring exceptions, such as a ClassLoader implementation). That gives the code I am writing an opportunity to recover. All runtime exceptions I propagate up until they are cached and handled with some generic error handling code. When I find a checked exception that I don't really want to handle at a specific level, or that I consider a programming logic error, then I wrap it into a RuntimeException and let it bubble up. Never, ever swallow an exception without a good reason (and good reasons for doing this are rather scarce)

当我使用没有检查异常的代码库时，它使我在调用函数时很难预先知道我期望什么，这可能会严重破坏一些东西。

当然，这完全取决于开发者的偏好和技能。编程和错误处理的两种方式可能同样有效(或无效)，所以我不会说只有一种方法。

总而言之，我发现使用受控异常更容易，特别是在有很多开发人员的大型项目中。

Anders在软件工程电台的第97集中谈到了受控异常的陷阱，以及他为什么把它们排除在c#之外。

试图解决这个尚未解决的问题:

如果抛出RuntimeException子类而不是Exception子类，那么您如何知道应该捕获什么?

恕我直言，这个问题包含似是而非的推理。仅仅因为API告诉你它抛出了什么并不意味着你在所有情况下都以相同的方式处理它。 换句话说，您需要捕获的异常取决于您使用抛出异常的组件的上下文。

例如:

如果我正在为数据库编写连接测试程序，或者编写检查用户输入XPath的有效性的程序，那么我可能希望捕获并报告操作抛出的所有已检查和未检查的异常。

然而，如果我正在编写一个处理引擎，我可能会以与NPE相同的方式处理XPathException (checked):我将让它运行到工作线程的顶部，跳过该批处理的其余部分，记录问题(或将其发送给支持部门进行诊断)，并为用户联系支持人员留下反馈。

良好的证明Checked Exception是不需要的:

A lot of framework that does some work for Java. Like Spring that wraps JDBC exception to unchecked exceptions, throwing messages to the log Lot of languages that came after java, even on top on java platform - they do not use them Checked exceptions, it is kind prediction about how the client would use the code that throws an exception. But a developer who writes this code would never know about the system and business that client of code is working in. As an example Interfcace methods that force to throw checked exception. There are 100 implementation over the system, 50 or even 90 of implementations do not throw this exception, but the client still must to catch this exception if he user reference to that interface. Those 50 or 90 implementations tend to handle those exceptions inside themself, putting exception to the log (and this is good behavior for them). What we should do with that? I would better have some background logic that would do all that job - sending message to the log. And If I, as a client of code, would feel I need handle the exception - I will do it. I may forget about it, right - but if I use TDD, all my steps are covered and I know what I want. Another example when I'm working with I/O in java, it forces me to check all exception, if file does not exists? what I should do with that? If it does not exists, the system would not go to the next step. The client of this method, would not get expected content from that file - he can handle Runtime Exception, otherwise I should first check Checked Exception, put a message to log, then throw exception up out form the method. No...no - I would better do it automatically with RuntimeEception, that does it / lits up automatically. There is no any sense to handle it manually - I would be happy I saw an error message in the log (AOP can help with that.. something that fixes java). If, eventually, I deice that system should shows pop-up message to the end user - I will show it, not a problem.

我很高兴java能让我选择使用什么，当使用核心库时，比如I/O。Like提供了相同类的两个副本——一个用RuntimeEception包装。然后我们可以比较人们会使用什么。但是现在，很多人会选择java或其他语言之上的框架。比如Scala, JRuby等等。许多人相信SUN是对的。