checked/unchecked exception list

[Asad Zubair]

Hi folks,

There is list of exceptions in the KB book that classifes them as thrown by JVM or programmer. However, I could not find a proper list in the book or the forums that classifies them by checked vs unchecked. So I have a compiled a list here of the ones I have encountered in the book and mock exams for you guys to use as a resource. (Enjoy).
If there is any that you have encountered, feel free to add to this list but please limit your responses to your findings in mock exams/KB book only.

Unchecked
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
ClassCastException
IllegalArgumentException
IllegalStateException
NullPointerException
NumberFormatException
AssertionError
ExceptionInInitializerError
StackOverflowError
NoClassDefFoundError

Checked
Exception
IOException
FileNotFoundException
ParseException
ClassNotFoundException
CloneNotSupportedException
InstantiationException
InterruptedException
NoSuchMethodException
NoSuchFieldException

[Peter Mc Cormack]

Thanks Asad, just what I was looking for!

[Anayonkar Shivalkar]

I remember a simple rule:

if e IS-A RuntimeException, or e IS-A Error, then it is unchecked exception;
otherwise, it is checked exception.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

Anayonkar Shivalkar wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong.

You are right.
From JLS:

The unchecked exceptions classes are the class RuntimeException and its subclasses, and the class Error and its subclasses.
All other exception classes are checked exception classes

[Thomas Hauck]

More on this topic can be found at

List of Checked and Unchecked Exceptions in Java

[Campbell Ritchie]

Thomas Hauck wrote:. . . List of Checked and Unchecked Exceptions in Java

Unfortunately, that list is only short, and the explanations aren't always very good. It misses out the commonest checked exceptions, e.g. this, and this. Also some of the descriptions make me wonder whether the writer has ever used that exception:-

That List wrote:17. UnsupportedOperationException: An unsupported operation was encountered.

The definition of checked exceptions and unchecked exceptions is to be found in the Java® Language Specification (=JLS), which confirms that  Anayonkar Shivalkar was correct, but the class RuntimeException must be high in the list of most confusing class names ever.
If a link tells us that a class was new in Java5, I am going to think the list is oiut of date. Java5 was nearly fifteen years ago.

[Thomas Hauck]

The updated list can be found at
Checked | Unchecked Exceptions