Introduction

Overview

Reflections

Learning Objectives

• Draw and describe the Throwable class inheritance hierarchy

• Explain the purpose and use of Errors

• Explain the purpose and use of Exceptions

• Explain the purpose and use of RuntimeExceptions

• Explain the difference between checked and unchecked exceptions

• State the purpose of the try, catch, and finally blocks

• Demonstrate the use of a try/catch statement

• Demonstrate the use of a try/catch/finally statement

• Demonstrate the use of a try/finally statement

• Demonstrate the use of multiple catch blocks

• Demonstrate the use of the throws clause

• Demonstrate how to perform exception chaining

• Demonstrate how to extend the Exception class to create custom exceptions

• Demonstrate your ability to use exceptions effectively in your Java programs