11.1 Introduction
As you know from Chapter 7, an exception is an indication of a problem that occurs during a program’s execution. Exception handling enables you to create applications that can resolve (or handle) exceptions. In many cases, handling an exception allows a program to continute executing as if no problem had been encountered. The features presented in this chapter help you write robust and fault-tolerant programs that can deal with problems and continue executing or terminate gracefully. Java exception handling is based in part on the work of Andrew Koenig and Bjarne Stroustrup.1
1. A. Koenig and B. Stroustrup, “Exception Handling for C++ (revised),” Proceedings of the Usenix C++ Conference, pp. 149–176, San Francisco, April 1990. ...
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