Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...

You aren't silently suppressing the exception, right? As for item 2 of the OP, sure you can factor functionality out of the catch block. Why would you think otherwise? Having multiple occurrences of a ...

Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own ...