Undocumented Secrets of MATLAB-Java Programming

Appendix A: What Is Java?626

// do something useful here...

}

catch (AnException ex)

{

// do some error-processing here...

}

catch (AnotherException ex) { ... }

finally

{

// do some cleanup processing here whether or not exception raised

}

Java enforces stricter exception fore-thought by the programmer: uncaught exceptions must

be declared at the top method denition line:

public void readFile(String fileName) throws IOException { . . . }

Unlike MATLAB, which directly interprets source code, Java requires source code to be com-

piled into binary byte-code (aka class-les). This compilation can be done using the command-line

javac compiler, available from ...