title: Try with empty Catches
body: <p>Say I have a try statement with and empty catch is that bad practice? For example say I have 2 try separate trys where it is possible for one to fail but the other to succeed or both succeed or any possible combination of such. Is that bad practice to handle code like that?</p>
  
  <p>Example</p>
  
  <pre><code>if( mode == Modes.EDIT ){
    try {user = userBo.findById(id).get(0); }
    catch(Exception e) { }
    try{
      result = this.initializeEntityById(accountDao, id);
      if( !result.equals(SUCCESS) ){
        return result;
      }   
    }
    catch(Exception e){ }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this example the variable in concern is 'id' where I'm not sure if the value coming in is valid and on the front end it doesn't really matter because the code handles whatever comes in and provides correct display.</p>
  
  <p>So the question really is:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Is this a bad practice with the empty catch's?</li>
  <li>Is there any potential instability that could occur that I'm not realizing?</li>
  <li>Is there a better way to achieve what I'm looking to get at?</li>
  </ol>