[peterashford]

I can't agree with that at all. Checked exceptions can all be bubbled up to a single catch if that's how you want to handle it. That hardly pollutes a codebase.

[EdwardDiego]

Sure. But the bubbling of checked exceptions adds a lot of "foo() throws DeepUnderlyingException", all the way up to your single catch.

And the worst part is when reading the code in such a situation, it can get very tricky to figure out exactly where the exception is thrown.

There's a reason that the JVM ecosystem has largely moved away from checked exceptions.