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 contains a built-in construct to handle a class of common code-related runtime errors, called the RuntimeException, or the unchecked exception. Java 17 defines 78 such errors in the SDK alone, ...

The exception-mapping line maps any Exception at all (since all Java Exceptions are descendants of java.lang.Exception) to the "error" result. This result is defined a couple of lines later, and ...