• • From above we knew that when an exception is present in a program, it normally disrupts the normal flow of the application So it is a disadvantages fact.
• • So java provides a mechanism to handle exceptions known as exception handling mechanism.
• • The mechanism includes five keywords such as try, catch, finally, throw, and throws.
• • Basically an exception will present within a try block. When try block is executed, JVM will encounter the catch block. Then the type of exception in try block and type of exception passed as argument in catch block must be match. Then exception will handle otherwise it cannot handle.

The general form of try block is:

Example

try
{
	-	- -  -  -  -//Risky Code
	-	-  - - - - -
} 

The general form of catch block is

Example

catch( exception_type e)
{
	-	- - - - - -//Handling Code
	-	- - - - - -
s}

• • The try block may contain one or more than one statements that will generate an exception. If anyone statement generate an exception, the remaining statements in the block are skipped and the execution will go to the catch block.
• • The catch block also may contain one or more than one statements. When catch block will be successfully executed then we will sure our exception will handle.
• • The catch block is looking like a method definition and passed a single parameter which is a reference to the exception object.
• • If the catch parameter matches with the type of exception object then the exception is caught and the statement in the catch block will be executed.

Let us see a program to understand the use of try and catch

Output:

vivtech
viswass

Note:

The JVM firstly checks whether the exception is handled or not. If exception is not handled, JVM provides a default exception handler that performs the following tasks:

• • Prints out exception description.
• • Prints the stack trace (Hierarchy of methods where the exception occurred).
• • Causes the program to terminate.

viswass
But if exception is handled by the application programmer, normal flow of the application is maintained i.e. rest of the code is executed.

Multiple Catch

It is possible to write more than one catch block in a program. The general form is as follows

When an exception is found in try a block java encounters multiple catch blocks like cases in switch statement that means the first statement whose parameter will match with the exception object will be executed and remaining statements will be skipped.

Let us see a program to understand this concept

Output:
Silan Software
2
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Note:

At a time only one Exception is occurred and at a time only one catch block is executed.

Java Nested try block

The try block within a try block is known as nested try block in java. Sometimes a situation may arise where a part of a block may cause one error and the entire block itself may cause another error. In such cases, exception handlers have to be nested.

Let's see a simple example of java nested try block.

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