[LANG-1149] Ability to throw checked exceptions without declaring them

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.5
• Component/s: lang.exception.*
• Assignee: Charles Honton
• Reporter: Bruno P. Kinoshita
• Created: 20/Jun/15 09:09
• Updated: 19/Oct/16 07:00
• Resolved: 28/May/16 11:18

Description

Place holder ticket for https://github.com/apache/commons-lang/pull/98

"One of Java's most controversial features is checked exceptions, and most other languages—including newer JVM-based languages (Scala, Clojure, etc.)—have dispensed with them. Check out this fantastic interview with Anders Hejlsberg (creator of C#) on why checked exceptions are a bad idea.

This utility gives users a way to dispense with checked exceptions even in Java, in a minimally intrusive fashion. By standardizing such a utility and giving it widespread adoption, hopefully the folks over at Oracle will eventually give in and drop the feature in a later release of Java. Luckily, it wouldn't be backwards incompatible to do so."