Good quality debate on the design (and use) of checked exceptions in Java. Eliotte Rusty Harold argues for the use of Checked Exceptions and why in general they are a Good Thing. I tried to hard to get behind this, but having been doing so much python and ruby for the last few years, can’t get my head back into this. In fact when I used Spring I found that there’s always loads more “throws Exception” which then spreads everywhere like a bad rash (Rod Johnson (like Bruce Eckel) doesn’t like Checked exceptions either, apparently).