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

If you can do the same functionality for any unexpected execptions (runtime execeptions, for example) thrown by your code, it is fine.

Otherwise, I recommend catching the sub-classes.

Consider what would happen if some part of your code threw a NullPointerException?