The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as ... from a checked or an unchecked base. The class diagram below shows our basic exception hierarchy.

In my next article, we’ll discuss Java’s more advanced exception handling capabilities. Failure occurs when a Java program’s normal behavior is interrupted by unexpected behavior.

Both checked and unchecked exceptions can occur in Java. Java programs can generally recover from checked exceptions, with exception handlers written into each program to define what it should do ...

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. Every subclass of java.lang.Exception is a ...