title: Is there anything wrong with my Factory class?
body: <pre><code>class PieceFactory {     
       @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
       public Piece createPiece(String pieceType) throws Throwable{
          Class pieceClass = Class.forName(pieceType);
          Piece piece = (Piece) pieceClass.newInstance();
  
           return piece;       
       }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm not all used to handling exceptions yet therefore I'm just throwing them, but everywhere I use a method that uses this factory it tells me I have to throw exceptions like throwable.</p>
  
  <p>For example, in one of my classes I have a method that instantiates a lot of objects using the method that uses the factory. I can use the method in that class by just throwing the exception, however it won't work if I try to pass a reference to that class to another class and then use the method from there. Then it forces me to try catch the exception.</p>
  
  <p>I probably don't need a factory but it seemed interesting and I'd like to try to use patterns. The reason I created the factory was that I have 6 subclasses of Piece and I wan't to use a method to instantiate them by passing the type of subclass I want as an argument to the method.</p>