Java classifies exceptions into a few types: checked exceptions, unchecked exceptions, and errors, which must be handled by the JVM. I’ll have more below about how the Java virtual machine ...

Thus, making an exception checked forces the programmer to pay heed to the possibility of it being thrown. An example of a checked exception is java.io.IOException.

Aborting."); System.exit(1); } Some other good features of Java exception handling are checked exceptions, user-defined exceptions, and the new Java logging API coming out in JDK 1.4.