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Chapter 6: Exceptions

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exceptions is thrown. The statement(s) in the

finally

block would close the file if it were still

open.

6.2 Java Exception Classes

When an exception is thrown, an object is thrown corresponding to one of the supplied Java

exception classes. In Section 6.1, we have seen an example of an exception being thrown by

the runtime system; an exception can also be explicitly thrown by the program code. This is

illustrated in Section 6.3. Figure 6.1 shows the exception class hierarchy outline.

Note that the Error hierarchy describes serious internal errors that applications should

not normally try to catch. ...