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Java Exception Handling Basics

This document discusses basic exception handling in Java. It defines exceptions as events that disrupt normal program flow and explains that exceptions can be checked, occurring during compilation, or unchecked, occurring during execution. It provides examples of checked and unchecked exceptions. It then explains try, catch, and finally blocks for handling exceptions, noting that try blocks contain code that may throw exceptions, catch blocks handle specific exceptions, and finally blocks contain cleanup code that always executes. The document concludes by mentioning user-defined exceptions extend the Exception class and throw statements send exceptions to be handled elsewhere.

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Java Exception Handling Basics

This document discusses basic exception handling in Java. It defines exceptions as events that disrupt normal program flow and explains that exceptions can be checked, occurring during compilation, or unchecked, occurring during execution. It provides examples of checked and unchecked exceptions. It then explains try, catch, and finally blocks for handling exceptions, noting that try blocks contain code that may throw exceptions, catch blocks handle specific exceptions, and finally blocks contain cleanup code that always executes. The document concludes by mentioning user-defined exceptions extend the Exception class and throw statements send exceptions to be handled elsewhere.

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Exception Handling

Basic Exception Handling


• An exception is an event that occurs during the execution of a program that disrupts the normal flow
of instructions.
• Exception handling is the process used to change the normal flow of code execution if a specified
exception occurs.
• Exceptions that occur during compilation are called checked exceptions.
Exception Description
ClassNotFoundException The class is not found.
IllegalAccessException Access to a class is denied.
InstantiationException Attempt to create an object of an abstract class or an interface.
NoSuchMethodException A requested method does not exist.
• Unchecked exceptions are exceptions that occur during execution. These are also known as runtime
exceptions.
Exception Description
ArithmeticException Arithmetic error, such as an integer divided by 0
ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException Accessing an invalid index of the array
ArrayStoreException Assigning a value to an array index that does not match
the expected data type
InputMismatchException Entering a value that does not match the expected data
type
NullPointerException Invalid use of a null reference
NumberFormatException Invalid conversion of a string to a numeric format
StringIndexOutOfBoundsException Accessing an invalid index (character) of a string

try, catch, and finally


• A try block is a block of code that might throw an exception that can be handled by a matching catch
block.
• A catch block is a segment of code that can handle an exception that might be thrown by the try block
that precedes it.
• The getMessage() method can be used to determine Java’s message about the exception.
Syntax: System.out.println(exceptionName.getMessage());
• Only one (1) try block is accepted in a program but there can be multiple catch blocks.

• A user-defined exception is created by extending the Exception class.


• The finally block contains statements which are executed whether or not an exception is thrown.
There can only be one (1) finally block after a try-catch structure but it is not required.

User-Defined Exceptions
• A user-defined exception is created by extending the Exception class.
• A throw statement sends an exception out of a block or a method so it can be handled elsewhere.

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