The top most exception class is the throwable class. Throwable serves as the base class for an
entire family of classes, declared an entire family of classes, declared in java.lang , that a particular
program can instantiate and throw . As can be seen in Figure 11.3, Throwable has two direct subclasses,
Exception and Error . Exceptions (members of the Exception family) are thrown to signal
abnormal conditions that can ...
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