Java™ for Programmers: Deitel

13. Exception Handling

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• How exception and error handling works.

• To use try, throw and catch to detect, indicate and handle exceptions, respectively.

• To use the finally block to release resources.

• How stack unwinding enables exceptions not caught in one scope to be caught in another scope.

• How stack traces help in debugging.

• How exceptions are arranged in an exception-class hierarchy.

• To declare new exception classes.

• To create chained exceptions that maintain complete stack-trace information.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

—Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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