Is it good to catch a more general type of Exception?

Question

If we are to catch specific forms of IOException, or any other kind as a matter of fact, and we only try and catch a couple (and define definitive outputs for t

Answer 1

Generally, you should only catch exceptions you are going to handle explicitly.

You should not catch Exception, IOException, et. al., unless you are an appropriately high level where you are doing your last ditch catch to report a general error to the user.