This divergence is known as an exception. For example, a program tries to open a file to read its contents, but the file doesn’t exist; that’s an exception.

Peter Haggar is an Advisory Software Engineer with IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. He can be contacted at [email protected]. EXCEPTION HANDLING IS a very powerful and useful feature of the Java ...

Exception handling is also used in C# programming language. So, if you get an idea of how exception handling works in Java, you can easily use it in other programming languages as well.

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 ...