Extreme Exception Programming – Catch Every Exception and Work Around It

I was reviewing the commit log from the last week commits and found this gem:

try{

list = (ArrayList<MyObject1>)session.getAttribute(TEMPORARY_LIST);

}catch (ClassCastException e){

if(add.getMyObjectCurrentItem()) != -1)

try{

list = add.getOtherList().get(add.getMyObjectList()).getMyObjectList();

} catch(IndexOutOfBoundsException e2){

try{

list = add.getOtherList().get(add.getMyObjectList()-1).getMyObjectList();<

} catch(IndexOutOfBoundsException e3){

//Move On

}

}

}

Only thing that came to mind was WTF, after Showing it to my boss he called it : Extreme Exception Programming.

I tweeted before about how in Enterprise we end up coding for every possible chance, but this is going too far.