Effective Exception Handling in Java

I’ve seen too many empty catch blocks in my life. You know the ones: `catch (Exception e) {}`. It’s like putting a band-aid over a bullet wound. The exception happened, but you’ve swallowed it, and now you have no idea why the application is behaving strangely. In Java, we have checked and unchecked exceptions. My philosophy is simple: Use checked exceptions for recoverable conditions (like a file not found, you can ask the user for another file) and unchecked for programming errors (like null pointers or invalid arguments). Also, logging is crucial. I always log the stack trace at the boundary layers of my application. And please, never use `e.printStackTrace()` in production. It goes to standard error, which usually isn’t monitored. Use a proper logging framework like SLF4J with Logback.