Comment by pauldbourke

I was going to do a post rebuking the points made, but rather unsurprisingly it seems plenty of others already have done so, in a manner much less arrogant than OP's.

http://www.javaspecialists.eu/archive/Issue187.html and http://onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/exceptions.html?pa... are two well written sources of many that Google turned up on the subject.