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。

这不仅仅是从异常中恢复的能力问题。在我看来，最重要的是调用者是否对捕获异常感兴趣。

如果您编写的库用于其他地方，或应用程序中的较低级别层，请询问自己调用者是否有兴趣捕获(了解)您的异常。如果他不是，那么使用一个未检查的异常，这样就不会给他带来不必要的负担。

这是许多框架使用的哲学。尤其是Spring和hibernate——它们精确地将已知的受控异常转换为未检查异常，因为Java中过度使用了受控异常。我能想到的一个例子是来自json.org的JSONException，这是一个受检查的异常，最烦人的是——它应该是不受检查的，但开发人员根本没有考虑到这一点。

顺便说一下，大多数情况下，调用者对异常的兴趣与从异常中恢复的能力直接相关，但情况并非总是如此。

我同意将未检查异常作为规则的偏好，特别是在设计API时。调用方总是可以选择捕获记录在案的、未检查的异常。你只是没有必要强迫打电话的人。

I find checked exceptions useful at the lower-level, as implementation detail. It often seems like a better flow of control mechanism than having to manage a specified error "return code". It can sometimes help see the impact of an idea for a low level code change too... declare a checked exception downstream and see who would need to adjust. This last point doesn't apply if there are a lot of generic: catch(Exception e) or throws Exception which is usually not too well-thought out anyway.

You can call it a checked or unchecked exception; however, both types of exception can be caught by the programmer, so the best answer is: write all of your exceptions as unchecked and document them. That way the developer who uses your API can choose whether he or she wants to catch that exception and do something. Checked exceptions are a complete waste of everyone's time and it makes your code a shocking nightmare to look at. Proper unit testing will then bring up any exceptions that you may have to catch and do something with.

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.

我使用的规则是:永远不要使用未经检查的异常!(或者当你看不到任何方法的时候)

从使用您的库的开发人员或使用您的库/应用程序的最终用户的角度来看，遇到由于不应出现的异常而导致应用程序崩溃的情况真的很糟糕。指望包罗万象也不行。

通过这种方式，最终用户仍然可以看到错误消息，而不是应用程序完全消失。