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's bad practice, because it makes the catch block catch runtime exceptions that shouldn't be caught.

If you use Java 7, you can use

catch (SomeException | SomeOtherException | YetAnotherException e) {
    ...
}