Thanks for the PR. Could I ask you make a small change. The various INIReader.read() methods should probably now throw INIParseException instead of ParseException, and Javadocs updated accordingly. This may break backwards compatibility for some users using INIReader directly, so I'll hold off merging this until 0.6.0-SNAPSHOT . I 'll merge your other PR and another minor typo into 0.5.6-SNAPSHOT before this though.

The convenience from*() methods in INI should now catch INIParseException and rethrow IllegalStateException instead.

I made the changes requested.

I will note that this PR is fully compatible with existing code. INIParseException extends ParseException, meaning that old catch blocks will still work. Narrowing the type of a thrown exception, from a method inside a final class, is never a contractually incompatible change.