Exception Handling

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Exception
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An exception is a representation of an error
condition or a situation that is not the
expected result of a method.
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Exceptions are built into the Java language
and are available to all program code.
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Exceptions isolate the code that deals with
the error condition from regular program
logic.

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Exception handling

Is the technique of catching the exceptions that
might be thrown during runtime.

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FORMAT

try {
…. body-code
} catch (exception-classname variable-name) {
….handler-code
}

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 The try/catch statement has
four parts

The body-code contains code that might throw the
exception that we want to handle.

The exception-classname is the class name of the
exception we want to handle.

The variable-name specifies a name for a variable
that will hold the exception object if the exception
occurs.
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The handler-code contains the code to execute if
the exception occurs.

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Common Exceptions

ArithmeticException--thrown if a program attempts
to perform division by zero

ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException--thrown if a
program attempts to access an index of an array
that does not exist

StringIndexOutOfBoundsException--thrown if a
program attempts to access a character at a non-
existent index in a String

NullPointerException--thrown if the JVM attempts to
perform an operation on an Object that points to no
data, or null
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Common Exceptions

NumberFormatException--thrown if a program is
attempting to convert a string to a numerical
datatype, and the string contains inappropriate
characters (i.e. 'z' or 'Q')
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ClassNotFoundException--thrown if a program can
not find a class it depends at runtime (i.e., the
class's ".class" file cannot be found or was removed
from the CLASSPATH)
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IOException--actually contained in java.io, but it is
thrown if the JVM failed to open an I/O stream

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Example1

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Example2

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Example3

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Example4

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Example5

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