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Foil 45 Java Language -- Handling Runtime Errors Using Exceptions

From Java Tutorial 98-2: Java Language and Object Oriented Techniques CPS606 Fall Semester 1999 -- Sept 7 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox, Nancy McCracken


The language itself supports concept of an exception
Java supports a hierarchical model of exceptions which allow and indeed require user to supply suitable handlers for any exception that can occur in a Java program
Note exceptions that can occur in a method must either be caught (i.e. handled inside method) or thrown (i.e. returned to callee)
Thrown exceptions are like returned arguments and are for instance part of interface to a method
Exceptions are all (at some level in hierarchy) subclasses of Throwable class



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