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Exception Handling: the modern programming concept for dealing with run-time errors 

Exception: “a run-time event that may cause a method to fail or to  execute incorrectly”

Purpose of Exception Handling:

“to allow graceful handling of and recovery from run-time errors”

Common examples in Java:
• NullPointerException
• ArithmeticException
• ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

• Java API contains over two dozen exceptions

provided by Java.

Exceptions and Exception Handling

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