Checked versus unchecked exceptions

[Bela Ban]

There's a discussion in jgroups-raft about $subject [1] and a PR [2] to remove checked exceptions from JChannel.
What do people think about this? Should we go from checked to unchecked exceptions in JGroups?

Note that the PR only does this for JChannel, but if we decide to do it, then more classes should be looked at, e.g. RpcDispatcher, MessageDispatcher etc

What do people think? To me this is almost a vi versus emacs discussion, largely a matter of taste. I'm leaning slighty towards unchecked exceptions, but then again checked exceptions haven't exactly caused any riots in the JGroups community over the last 27 years... :-)

Feedback, thoughts?

[1] https://github.com/jgroups-extras/jgroups-raft/issues/353
[2] https://github.com/belaban/JGroups/pull/937
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