Java: A Beginner's Guide, Eighth Edition, 8th Edition

Chapter 9

Exception Handling

Key Skills & Concepts

●   Know the exception hierarchy

●   Use try and catch

●   Understand the effects of an uncaught exception

●   Use multiple catch statements

●   Catch subclass exceptions

●   Nest try blocks

●   Throw an exception

●   Know the members of Throwable

●   Use finally

●   Use throws

●   Know Java’s built-in exceptions

●   Create custom exception classes

This chapter discusses exception handling. An exception is an error that occurs at run time. Using Java’s exception handling subsystem you can, in a structured and controlled manner, handle run-time errors. Although most modern programming languages ...