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Catching SecurityException

 
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A lot of library methods in the core JDK throws SecurityException.
See JMXConnectorFactory.connect as an example.
My question is: as a client, do I need to catch SecurityException ?
Can one actually recover from such an exception?
In my experience, most of the application code I've seen just ignores it.
Your opinions?

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Considering that it's a runtime exception, it should not make much sense to catch it, unless you'd like to do something else (logging?) when it happens.
 
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What do you want your user to see ... a nice error message or a stack trace? Can the user take any corrective action and try again? Things like that will factor into your decision.
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