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.

The Java platform includes a variety of language features and library types for dealing with exceptions, which are divergences from expected program behavior. In my previous article, you learned ...

Java developers learn to rely on their compilers to catch assignments to incorrect types, calls of nonexistent methods and—this article's topic—incorrect exception handling.