The code block responsible for doing that work is enclosed in a try/catch block. That indicates that the program will try to perform the operations inside the block, and if it is unable to because of ...

Learn everything you need to throw, try, catch, and clean up after Java exceptions in your programs.

Instead of adding the four different catch blocks to the try block, a busy programmer may simply wrap the method calls in a try/catch block that catches generic Exception s (see Listing 3 below).

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 ...