Java provides many exception classes that directly subclass Exception. Here are three examples: CloneNotSupportedException signals an attempt to clone an object whose class doesn’t implement the ...

A good example would be the FileNotFoundException.This does exactly what it says on the tin: this exception is “thrown” when Java looks for a particular file and can’t find it.

In Java, exceptions are one of many structures that govern the control flow of a program. Specifically, they are unintended side effects of a program's normal execution. When writing code that can ...

I look at this new exception class and discuss advantages of using it in this blog post and compare it to Java 7’s more general approach for handling multiple exceptions in a single catch clause.