There are things that I really don't understand about the overriding method throwing exceptions. The overriding method can throw exceptions that are subclass of exception thrown by the overridden method. Also Overriding method can throw any runtime exception or error. But I have read also that Overriding method can throw ANY exception. What does that mean? Can it throw a new exception??
Overriding methods need honour the contract defined its parents. In other words overriding method can throw all exceptions that fit into what ever exceptions parent method declares in its signature.
Apart from these there would be some unforeseen exceptions (RuntimeException) which are not in control of overriding method which could possibly be thrown from child method, but can not be declared.
As a good design practice, you should avoid throwing any unchecked exceptions which are not thrown by the superclass' method.
Remember: checked methods: declared with throws keyword, and described in documentation comments.
Unchecked exceptions: described in documentation comments with @throws (or @exception) tag.
