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.

The reason this can become a nuisance is that some methods in Java will actually force the user to handle exceptions. This is where “try catch” in Java comes into play.

A single try block can have multiple "catch" blocks to define different behaviors when an exception is encountered. If a program encounters an exception that is defined in multiple catch blocks ...

The code in Listing 2 consists of various try/catch/finally blocks nested within one another. You can place try/catch/finally, try/catch, or try/finally blocks anywhere in your Java code. In addition, ...