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    Default Try-Catch Statement & Exceptions

    Hi,

    Can try-catch statement can only be used to handle checked exceptions?

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    Are exceptions objects?


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    Default Re: Try-Catch Statement & Exceptions

    Quote Originally Posted by jamesh View Post
    Can try-catch statement can only be used to handle checked exceptions?
    A catch can handle any type of exception, checked or unchecked.

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    Are exceptions objects?
    Yes, apart the fact that an exception is in a well defined hierarchy (with java.lang.Throwable at the "top"), an exception is an object like others. When you throw an exception you typically do something like:

    throw new XyzException();

    Thus, you first instantiate the exception like any other class.
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    Default Re: Try-Catch Statement & Exceptions

    Quote Originally Posted by jamesh
    Are exceptions objects?
    Yes. Read up on them a little at Essential Classes > Exceptions.

    Can try-catch statement can only be used to handle checked exceptions?
    I'm not sure what you mean by 'checked exceptions' but if you remove the word 'checked' then yes. The purpose of a try-catch block is to react to code that may throw an exception.

    try {
            // Some code that throws an exception
            // Note that if an exception *is* thrown at some point
            // it doesn't execute any more code from this block
     
    } catch (NameOfTheException) {
           // Do something when this type of exception is thrown
     
    } catch (Exception) {
           // Exception is the superclass of all exceptions.  
           // You can even create your own exceptions by extending this class 
           // and then throw it where appropriate
     
    } finally {
          // This happens weather an exception is thrown or not.
     
     
    }

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