Throwing exceptions in Java

Question

I have a question about throwing exceptions in Java, a kind of misunderstanding from my side, as it seems, which I would like to clarify for myself.

I have been read

Answer 1

My expierence is that using the first method gets your code quickly unreadable - since the functionality and the error-handling is getting mixed up. BUT it makes sense in some cases where you have a try{}catch{}finaly{} - for example in file handling or database handling where you ALLWAYS want the connection to be closed.

try{ //do something
}catch(Exception ex){
//log
}finally{
//connection.close
}

For everything else I use the second option - just for the reason to centralize my error-handling routines and keep the readability of the code implementing the businesslogic itself.