See, I really don't get this. If you really don't care, just put "throws exception" on your methods and be done with. You can start lazy and tighten up if you want - your choice

This really becomes tedious when you're working with Java's primary means of codesharing/abstraction, inheritance. You can't subtract an IOException from an interface, and you can't introduce one if you're extending an interface. So you're forced to handle an exception that you frequently can't recover from and that paradoxically you probably don't expect to ever be thrown, for a majority of methods.