Should unchecked exceptions be caught and dealt with?

Question

I have been reading many posts about exceptions lately and I have a question whether unchecked exceptions should be caught. I have read that if you want your application to

Answer 1

You should catch an exception — checked or unchecked — if you can handle it in a meaningful way to recover from the problem. You generally should not catch an exception if you don't have a good way to handle it.

I've seen too much code that "handles" exceptions by doing e.printStackTrace() and then continuing as if nothing was wrong. Ignoring a problem like that usually just leads to other problems later.