Throwable ‘s other direct subclass is Error, which describes a serious (even abnormal) problem that a reasonable application should not try to handle—such as running out of memory, overflowing ...

Now the java.lang.Throwable class, the base class of java.lang.Exception, has a cause member field, which can be used to pass the important details of the original problem up the chain all the way ...

(In this article, when I say exception with a lowercase e, I mean java.lang.Throwable and its subclasses. When I mean a specific class, like java.lang.Exception, I include the package or at least ...