There's no reason for a main method to throw anything. After all, what's going to catch it?

Instead, the method should itself gracefully handle any exceptions that may bubble up to it, attach as much contextual information as possible, and perform whatever logging or user communication is necessary.

Noncompliant Code Example

public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception { // Noncompliant

Compliant Solution

public static void main(String args[]) {