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SNS Rajalakhsmi College of Arts and Science

(An Autonomous Co-Education Institution)
Coimbatore – 641049
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JAVA EXCEPTION HANDLING

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Mrs.S.Janani
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology
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 INTRODUCTION
• Due to design errors or coding errors, our programs may fail in
unexpected ways during execution. An exception is a condition that
is caused by run time error in the program. The purpose of the
exception handling mechanism is to provide a means to detect and
report an “ecxceptional circumstances” .

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 An error may produce an incorrect output or may terminate
the execution of the program abruptly or even may cause
the system to crash. So it is our responsibility to detect and
manage the error properly.

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 Types of Error
Runtime Errors: occur while the program is running if the environment
detects an operation that is impossible to carry out.
Logic Errors: occur when a program doesn't perform the way it was
intended
Syntax Errors: Arise because the rules of the language have not been
followed. They are detected by the compiler.

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 Example
Class Error
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
int a=10;
int b=5;
int c=5;

int x=a/(b+c);
System.out.println("x=" +x);
int y=a/(b-c); // Errorr division by zero
System.out.println("y=" +y);
}
}

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Errors and Error Handling
 Some typical causes of errors:
Memory errors (i.e. memory incorrectly allocated, memory leaks,
“null pointer”)
File system errors (i.e. disk is full, disk has been removed)
Network errors (i.e. network is down, URL does not exist)
Calculation errors (i.e. divide by 0)

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 • Errors and Error Handling

• Exceptions – a better error handling

– Exceptions are a mechanism that provides the best of both worlds.
– Exceptions act similar to method return flags in that any method may raise
and exception should it encounter an error.
– Exceptions act like global error methods in that the exception mechanism is
built into Java; exceptions are handled at many levels in a program, locally
and/or globally.

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 • Exceptions

• How do you handle exceptions?

– To handle the exception, you write a “try-catch” block. To pass the
exception “up the chain”, you declare a throws clause in your method or
class declaration.
– If the method contains code that may cause a checked exception, you MUST
handle the exception OR pass the exception to the parent class (remember,
every class has Object as the ultimate parent)

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 • Coding Exceptions

• Coding Exceptions
• Try-Catch Mechanism
– Wherever your code may trigger an exception, the normal code logic is
placed inside a block of code starting with the “try” keyword:
– After the try block, the code to handle the exception should it arise is
placed in a block of code starting with the “catch” keyword.

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 Catching Exceptions
• Wrap code to be checked in a try-block
– checking occurs all the way down the execution
stack
• try-blocks can be nested
– control resumes at most enclosed matching
handler
 Coding Exceptions
• Types of Exceptions
– Examples:
• public void myMethod throws Exception {
• public void myMethod throws IOException {
• try { … }
catch (Exception e) { … }
• try { … }
catch (IOException ioe) { … }
 conclusion
– Exceptions are a powerful error handling
mechanism.
– Exceptions in Java are built into the language.
– Exceptions can be handled by the programmer
(try-catch), or handled by the Java environment
(throws).
– Exception handling can only hide the errors.
– It cannot correct the errors.
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