A good example would be the FileNotFoundException.This does exactly what it says on the tin: this exception is “thrown” when Java looks for a particular file and can’t find it.

I’m trying to grasp try-catch-finally in Java. I have two questions. These questions might sound silly, please bear in mind that I’m still a beginner. 1) Is ...

Some exceptions in Java must be handled in the developer's code. Other exceptions can occur without any exception handling semantics at all. When an exception must be handled with try-and-catch ...

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.