diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index da68238..32e753a 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
         <maven.plugin.plugin.version>3.9.0</maven.plugin.plugin.version>
         <maven.gpg.version>3.2.7</maven.gpg.version>
         <maven.assembly.version>3.7.1</maven.assembly.version>
-        <sonatype.nexus.central>0.6.0</sonatype.nexus.central>
+        <sonatype.nexus.central>0.7.0</sonatype.nexus.central>
 
         <log4j.version>2.24.3</log4j.version>
         <slf4j.version>2.0.13</slf4j.version>
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
         <jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>2.18.2</jackson-dataformat-yaml.version>
 
         <!--   Build tools' properties     -->
-        <spotbugs.version>4.8.6</spotbugs.version>
+        <spotbugs.version>4.9.0</spotbugs.version>
         <maven.spotbugs.version>4.8.6.6</maven.spotbugs.version>
         <maven.checkstyle.version>3.6.0</maven.checkstyle.version>
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGenerator.java b/src/main/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGenerator.java
index 0a7e4c3..6df243a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGenerator.java
+++ b/src/main/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGenerator.java
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  */
 package io.skodjob.datagenerator;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import io.skodjob.datagenerator.enums.ETemplateType;
@@ -16,6 +17,7 @@
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
+import java.io.IOException;
 import java.util.Objects;
 
 /**
@@ -64,12 +66,13 @@ public Object generateData() {
      * Generates JSON data based on the template type.
      *
      * @return the generated JSON data
+     * @throws IOException exception during JSON parsing
      */
-    public JsonNode generateJsonData() {
+    public JsonNode generateJsonData() throws IOException {
         try {
             return new ObjectMapper().readTree(generateData().toString());
-        } catch (Exception e) {
-            throw new RuntimeException("Error generating JSON data", e);
+        } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
+            throw new IOException("Error generating JSON data", e);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/test/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGeneratorTest.java b/src/test/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGeneratorTest.java
index c5f0238..5809843 100644
--- a/src/test/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGeneratorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/io/skodjob/datagenerator/DataGeneratorTest.java
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ void testValidateGeneratedData(String testName, String regex, DataGenerator gene
     }
 
     @Test
-    void testGenerateJsonData() {
+    void testGenerateJsonData() throws IOException {
         checkJsonData(payrollDataGenerator);
         checkJsonData(iotDataGenerator);
         checkJsonData(stargateDataGenerator);
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void testGenerateJsonData() {
         checkJsonData(flightsGenerator);
     }
 
-    void checkJsonData(DataGenerator generator) {
+    void checkJsonData(DataGenerator generator) throws IOException {
         JsonNode jsonData = generator.generateJsonData();
         assertNotNull(jsonData, "Generated JSON data should not be null for " + generator.getTemplateType());
         assertTrue(jsonData.isObject(), "Generated JSON data should be a JSON object for " + generator.getTemplateType());