Java projects rarely feature a consistent and thorough exception-handling strategy. Often, developers add the mechanism as an afterthought or an as-you-go addition. Significant reengineering ...

Allowing developers to handle an exception from the selector in switch with a case in the switch block would make switch more usable for pattern matching, the proposal says.

Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.