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Foil 53 Classes of Exceptions

From Java to be used in (Scientific) Computing Part II: Java Language and Object-Oriented Concepts Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science CPS615 -- Fall Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
There are two subclasses of Throwable
  • Error such as OutOfMemoryError which do NOT have to be caught as they are serious but unpredictable and could typically occur anywhere!
  • Exception which we have discussed
Exception has a subclass RuntimeException that need NOT be caught
Typical RuntimeException subclasses are
ArithmeticException, ClassCastException, IndexOutofBoundException

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