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Foil 7 Classes of Exceptions

From Jan 29 Delivered Lecture for Course CPS616 -- Java Lecture 3 -- Exceptions Through Events CPS616 spring 1997 -- Jan 29 1997. by Nancy McCracken * See also color IMAGE
Secs 48.9
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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