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Java Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Java Programming for Beginners Learn the fundamentals of programming with Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296298
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff
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Exceptions

Sometimes, there is a possibility that our code might fail. It might be our fault for making a programming error, or it might be an end user using our system in a way we didn't anticipate. Sometimes, it might even be a hardware failure; a lot of errors can't really be attributed to any one single source, but they are going to happen. The way that our program handles the error case is often just as, if not more, important as how it handles ideal use cases.

In this section, we're going to take a look at Java exceptions. Using Java exceptions, we can detect and catch, and in some cases recover from, errors that occur within our program. As we go through exceptions, there's something really important to keep in mind. Exceptions are called exceptions because they exist to handle exceptional cases, things that we either couldn't handle or couldn&apos...

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