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On 9/12/2012 9:18 AM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:

>       I prefer reading the main flow of execution as a high-level
> story.  Catches interrupt this.  When there are a lot of catches, they
> make the main code harder to find.


Well true, but these sorts of things yield easily to a little thought 
and planning.

Given some method or collection of methods that throw a lot of 
exceptions, throwsALot(), you can just separate out the exception 
handling from the rest of the code.

   private void implementation()
      throws This, That, Another
   {
       throwsALot();
   }

   public void handlers() {
     try {
       implementation();
     } catch( This ex ) {
     } catch( That ex ) {
     } catch( Another ex ) {
     }

Now at least your bothersome exception handling is separate from your 
implementation, and you can read the code a bit more easily.  One 
exception in Java 7 is probably AutoClosable, which you should probably 
take advantage of when available.