Is it bad practice to catch the Exception class instead of Exception sub-classes?

Question

I have a method which throws subclasses of Exception. If I am performing the same catch functionality for each sub-class of Exception that\'s causght is it bad practice to just

Answer 1

Yes it is bad practice to squelch exceptions by catching the Exception class. Exceptions are designed to transmit problem reports to the handler, and doing this could possibly hide a serious error.