[lomnakkus]

Indeed. Java is in fact a sort of worst-of-all-worlds in that it's even possible to catch things that are really unrecoverable errors like StackOverflowException or OutOfMemoryError. To to uninitiated it might not like appear that catching these is that bad, right? In addition to the problems with finally clauses not necessarily running to completion under such circumstances catching these exceptions can cause extremely hard-to-debug deadlocks because object locks won't be released properly.

This is an area where the design of Java/JVM is badly screwed up.

[1] JVM, really. It's pretty unavoidable on most (all?) JVM languages.