Common place to turn checked exceptions into unchecked exceptions
diff --git a/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/io/IOX.java b/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/io/IOX.java
index a25fe6b..ed78dbb 100644
--- a/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/io/IOX.java
+++ b/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/io/IOX.java
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@
         void actionEx(X arg) throws IOException;
     }
 
+    // Maybe change to java.io.UncheckedIOException
     /**
      * Convert an {@link IOException} into a {@link RuntimeIOException}.
      * <p>
      * Idiom:
-     *
      * <pre>
      *     catch(IOException ex) { throw new exception(ex); }
      * </pre>
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
      * Convert an {@link IOException} into a {@link RuntimeIOException}.
      * <p>
      * Idiom:
-     *
      * <pre>
      *     catch(IOException ex) { throw new exception("Oh dear", ex); }
      * </pre>
diff --git a/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/lib/Lib.java b/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/lib/Lib.java
index e77ab46..bbc2b43 100644
--- a/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/lib/Lib.java
+++ b/jena-base/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/atlas/lib/Lib.java
@@ -110,6 +110,18 @@
         return new UnsupportedOperationException(Lib.className(object) + "." + method);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Return a {@linkplain RuntimeException}. If the argument is already
+     * {@code RuntimeException}, return the argument. Otherwise, wrap in
+     * {@code RuntimeException}, with the same message, and return the
+     * {@code RuntimeException}
+     */
+    public static RuntimeException runtimeException(Exception ex) {
+        if ( ex instanceof RuntimeException ex2)
+            throw ex2;
+        return new RuntimeException(ex.getMessage(), ex);
+    }
+
     /** Do two lists have the same elements without considering the order of the lists nor duplicates? */
     public static <T> boolean equalsListAsSet(List<T> list1, List<T> list2) {
         if ( list1 == null && list2 == null )