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

You should not catch these at every possible location where an IOException can happen but further up in the call tree where you are prepared to handle the remaining IOExceptions and the general Exceptions.

We use the rule of thumb, that you catch specific exceptions at the place where you can handle the error and pass the remaining ones up to the caller.