The implementation of this in Sun Microsystems’ Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.1 assumes, somewhat naively, that such uncaught exceptions can only be subclasses of java.lang.Exception.

I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software development chapters I have read. The value of this chapter was ...

The semantics of Java exception handling provides plenty of fodder for such people. In JShell, exceptions need not be handled. For example, to output the content of a file in a regular Java program, ...