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Foil 81 Java Language -- Handling Errors Using Exceptions

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


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
method1 {
  • try {
    • call method2;
  • } catch (Exception3 e) {
    • doErrorProcessing(e);
  • }
}
method2 throws Exception3 {
  • call method3;
}
method3 throws Exception3 {
  • call dividebyzeroorreadfileorsomething;
}



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