Summary

In this chapter, you were introduced to the Java exception handling framework, and you learned about two kinds of exceptions—checked and unchecked (runtime)—and how to handle them using try-catch-finally and throws statements. Also, you learned how to generate (throw) exceptions and how to create your own (custom) exceptions. The chapter concluded with the best practices of exception handling which, if followed consistently, will help you to write clean and clear code, which is pleasant to write and easy to understand and maintain.

In the next chapter, we will talk about strings and their processing in detail, along with input/output streams and file reading and writing techniques.