OCA Java SE 8 Programmer I Certification Guide

7.7. Review notes

This section lists the main points of all the sections covered in this chapter.

Why handle exceptions separately:

• Handling exceptions separately enables you to define the main logic of your code together.
• Without the use of separate exception handlers, the main logic of your code would be lost in combating the exceptional conditions. (See figure 7.5 for an example.)
• Exception handlers separate the concerns of defining regular program logic from exception-handling code.
• Exceptions help pinpoint the offending code, together with the method in which it’s defined, by providing a stack trace of the exception or error.
• The JVM may send the stack trace of an unhandled exception to the Java console.

Categories of exceptions: