How to know which exception is thrown

Question

I\'m doing a review for our codebase, and there are many statements like this:

try
{
   doSomething()
} catch (Exception e)
{

}

but I would l

Answer 1

If there is no throws clause, then the method does not throw any checked execption. The javadoc of that method might give information about any unchecked exceptions the method can throw, but it does not have to.

Why do you want to catch any exceptions in the first place?