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Java Essentials For Dummies
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Java Essentials For Dummies

by Doug Lowe, Paul McFedries
December 2024
Beginner
208 pages
3h 46m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 9

Handling Exceptions

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Seeing what to do when bad things happen to good programs

Bullet Finding out all about exceptions

Bullet Using try, catch, and finally

This chapter is about what happens when Java encounters an error situation that it can’t deal with. Being an object-oriented programming language, Java handles errors by using special exception objects that are created when an error occurs. In addition, Java has a special statement called the try statement that you must use to deal with exception objects. In this chapter, you find all the gory details of working with exception objects and try statements.

Understanding Exceptions

An exception is an object that’s created when an error occurs in a Java program and Java can’t automatically fix the error. The exception object contains information about the type of error that occurred. The most important information — the cause of the error — is indicated by the name of the exception class used to create the exception. You usually don’t have to do anything with an exception object other than figure out which one you have.

Each type of exception that can occur is represented by a different exception class. Here are some ...

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