The Java® Language Specification, Java SE 7 Edition, Fourth Edition

14.20. The try statement

A try statement executes a block. If a value is thrown and the try statement has one or more catch clauses that can catch it, then control will be transferred to the first such catch clause. If the try statement has a finally clause, then another block of code is executed, no matter whether the try block completes normally or abruptly, and no matter whether a catch clause is first given control.

TryStatement:    try Block Catches    try Block Catches_opt Finally    TryWithResourcesStatementCatches:    CatchClause    Catches CatchClauseCatchClause:    catch ( CatchFormalParameter ) BlockCatchFormalParameter:    VariableModifiers_opt CatchType VariableDeclaratorIdCatchType:    ClassType    ClassType | CatchTypeFinally:     ...