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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.

这里有一个非常简单的方法来解决你的“受控/未受控”困境。

规则1:将未检查异常视为代码执行前的可测试条件。 例如……

x.doSomething(); // the code throws a NullPointerException

其中x为空… 代码应该有以下内容

if (x==null)
{
    //do something below to make sure when x.doSomething() is executed, it won’t throw a NullPointerException.
    x = new X();
}
x.doSomething();

规则2:将检查异常视为代码执行时可能出现的不可测试条件。

Socket s = new Socket(“google.com”, 80);
InputStream in = s.getInputStream();
OutputStream out = s.getOutputStream();

在上面的例子中，URL (google.com)可能由于DNS服务器宕机而不可用。即使在DNS服务器工作并将“google.com”名称解析为IP地址的瞬间，如果连接到google.com，在任何时候，网络都可能瘫痪。你不能在读写流之前一直测试网络。

有时候，在我们知道是否存在问题之前，代码必须执行。通过强迫开发人员以这种方式编写代码，迫使他们通过检查异常来处理这些情况，我不得不向发明了这个概念的Java创造者致敬。

一般来说，几乎所有的Java api都遵循上述2条规则。如果尝试写入文件，磁盘可能会在完成写入之前被填满。可能是其他进程导致磁盘已满。根本没有办法测试这种情况。对于那些随时与硬件交互的人来说，使用硬件可能会失败，受控异常似乎是解决这个问题的一个优雅的解决方案。

这是一个灰色地带。在需要许多测试的情况下(一个带有大量&&和||的令人震惊的if语句)，抛出的异常将是一个CheckedException，因为要正确处理它太痛苦了——你不能简单地说这个问题是一个编程错误。如果测试少于10个(例如' If (x == null) ')，那么程序员错误应该是UncheckedException。

与语言口译员打交道时，事情变得有趣起来。根据上面的规则，语法错误应该被认为是一个检查或未检查的异常?我认为，如果语言的语法可以在执行之前进行测试，那么它应该是UncheckedException。如果无法测试该语言——类似于程序集代码在个人计算机上的运行方式，那么语法错误应该是一个已检查异常。

The 2 rules above will probably remove 90% of your concern over which to choose from. To summarize the rules, follow this pattern… 1) if the code to be execute can be tested before it’s executed for it to run correctly and if an Exception occurs — a.k.a. a programmer error, the Exception should be an UncheckedException (a subclass of RuntimeException). 2) if the code to be executed can not be tested before it’s executed for it to run correctly, the Exception should be a Checked Exception (a subclass of Exception).

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。

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。

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。