当你想要向调用者提供信息时，受控异常对于可恢复的情况很有用(例如，权限不足，文件未找到等)。

未检查异常很少用于在运行时通知用户或程序员严重错误或意外情况。如果你编写的代码或库将被其他人使用，不要抛出这些异常，因为他们可能不希望你的软件抛出未经检查的异常，因为编译器不会强制捕获或声明这些异常。

我们必须根据是否是程序员错误来区分这两种类型的异常。

If an error is a programmer error, it must be an Unchecked Exception. For example: SQLException/IOException/NullPointerException. These exceptions are programming errors. They should be handled by programmer. While in JDBC API, SQLException is Checked Exception, In Spring JDBCTemplate it is an Unchecked Exception.Programmer doesn't worry about SqlException, when use Spring. If an error is not a programmer error and the reason is coming from external, it must be a Checked Exception. For example: if the file is deleted or file permission is changed by someone else, It should be recovered.

FileNotFoundException是理解细微差别的好例子。在找不到文件的情况下抛出FileNotFoundException。这种例外有两个原因。如果文件路径是由开发人员定义的或通过GUI从最终用户获取的，那么它应该是一个未检查的异常。如果文件被其他人删除，它应该是一个Checked Exception。

检查异常可以用两种方式处理。它们使用try-catch或传播异常。在异常传播的情况下，由于异常处理，调用堆栈中的所有方法都将紧密耦合。这就是为什么我们必须小心地使用已检查异常。

如果您开发了一个分层的企业系统，您必须选择大多数未检查的异常来抛出，但不要忘记在您什么都做不了的情况下使用已检查的异常。

来自Java学习者:

When an exception occurs, you have to either catch and handle the exception, or tell compiler that you can't handle it by declaring that your method throws that exception, then the code that uses your method will have to handle that exception (even it also may choose to declare that it throws the exception if it can't handle it). Compiler will check that we have done one of the two things (catch, or declare). So these are called Checked exceptions. But Errors, and Runtime Exceptions are not checked for by compiler (even though you can choose to catch, or declare, it is not required). So, these two are called Unchecked exceptions. Errors are used to represent those conditions which occur outside the application, such as crash of the system. Runtime exceptions are usually occur by fault in the application logic. You can't do anything in these situations. When runtime exception occur, you have to re-write your program code. So, these are not checked by compiler. These runtime exceptions will uncover in development, and testing period. Then we have to refactor our code to remove these errors.

当不太可能出现异常时，即使在捕捉到异常之后，我们也可以继续，并且我们不能做任何事情来避免该异常，那么我们可以使用受控异常。

当我们想做一些有意义的事情时，当一个特定的异常发生时，当这个异常是预期的，但不是确定的，那么我们可以使用受控异常。

当异常在不同的层中导航时，我们不需要在每一层都捕获它，在这种情况下，我们可以使用运行时异常或包装异常作为未检查的异常。

运行时异常是在异常最有可能发生的情况下使用的，没有办法进一步进行，并且没有任何东西可以恢复。在这种情况下，我们可以对这种异常采取预防措施。EX: NUllPointerException, ArrayOutofBoundsException。这些更有可能发生。在这种情况下，我们可以在编码时采取预防措施来避免这种异常。否则，我们将不得不在每个地方都写入try catch块。

更一般的例外情况可以设置为Unchecked，不太一般的例外情况将被检查。

以下是我在多年开发经验后的一些看法:

Checked exception. This is a part of business use case or call flow, this is a part of application logic we expect or not expect. For example connection rejected, condition is not satisfied etc. We need to handle it and show corresponding message to user with instructions what happened and what to do next (try again later etc). I usually call it post-processing exception or "user" exception. Unchecked exception. This is a part of programming exception, some mistake in software code programming (bug, defect) and reflects a way how programmers must use API as per documentation. If an external lib/framework doc says it expects to get data in some range and non null, because NPE or IllegalArgumentException will be thrown, programmer should expect it and use API correctly as per documentation. Otherwise the exception will be thrown. I usually call it pre-processing exception or "validation" exception.

目标受众。现在让我们来谈谈目标受众或设计例外的人群(根据我的观点):

检查异常。目标受众是用户/客户。 未经检查的异常。目标受众是开发人员。换句话说，未检查异常仅是为开发人员设计的。

通过应用程序开发生命周期阶段。

受控异常被设计为在整个生产生命周期中存在，作为应用程序处理异常情况的正常和预期机制。 未检查异常被设计为只存在于应用程序开发/测试生命周期期间，所有这些异常都应该在这段时间内得到修复，并且当应用程序已经在生产环境中运行时不应该抛出。

框架通常使用未检查异常(例如Spring)的原因是框架不能确定应用程序的业务逻辑，这取决于开发人员捕捉并设计自己的逻辑。

以下是我的“最终经验法则”。 我使用:

方法代码中由于调用者导致的失败而出现的未检查的异常(这涉及一个显式和完整的文档) 检查异常失败由于被调用，我需要明确的任何人想要使用我的代码

与前面的答案相比，这是使用一种或另一种(或两种)例外的明确理由(人们可以同意或不同意)。

对于这两个异常，我将为我的应用程序创建自己的未检查和已检查的异常(这里提到过，这是一个很好的实践)，除了非常常见的未检查异常(如NullPointerException)

例如，下面这个特定函数的目标是创建(如果已经存在，则获取)一个对象， 意义:

the container of the object to make/get MUST exist (responsibility of the CALLER => unchecked exception, AND clear javadoc comment for this called function) the other parameters can not be null (choice of the coder to put that on the CALLER: the coder will not check for null parameter but the coder DOES DOCUMENT IT) the result CAN NOT BE NULL (responsibility and choice of the code of the callee, choice which will be of great interest for the caller => checked exception because every callers MUST take a decision if the object can not be created/found, and that decision must be enforced at the compilation time: they can not use this function without having to deal with this possibility, meaning with this checked exception).

例子:

/**
 * Build a folder. <br />
 * Folder located under a Parent Folder (either RootFolder or an existing Folder)
 * @param aFolderName name of folder
 * @param aPVob project vob containing folder (MUST NOT BE NULL)
 * @param aParent parent folder containing folder 
 *        (MUST NOT BE NULL, MUST BE IN THE SAME PVOB than aPvob)
 * @param aComment comment for folder (MUST NOT BE NULL)
 * @return a new folder or an existing one
 * @throws CCException if any problems occurs during folder creation
 * @throws AssertionFailedException if aParent is not in the same PVob
 * @throws NullPointerException if aPVob or aParent or aComment is null
 */
static public Folder makeOrGetFolder(final String aFoldername, final Folder aParent,
    final IPVob aPVob, final Comment aComment) throws CCException {
    Folder aFolderRes = null;
    if (aPVob.equals(aParent.getPVob() == false) { 
       // UNCHECKED EXCEPTION because the caller failed to live up
       // to the documented entry criteria for this function
       Assert.isLegal(false, "parent Folder must be in the same PVob than " + aPVob); }

    final String ctcmd = "mkfolder " + aComment.getCommentOption() + 
        " -in " + getPNameFromRepoObject(aParent) + " " + aPVob.getFullName(aFolderName);

    final Status st = getCleartool().executeCmd(ctcmd);

    if (st.status || StringUtils.strictContains(st.message,"already exists.")) {
        aFolderRes = Folder.getFolder(aFolderName, aPVob);
    }
    else {
        // CHECKED EXCEPTION because the callee failed to respect his contract
        throw new CCException.Error("Unable to make/get folder '" + aFolderName + "'");
    }
    return aFolderRes;
}