Sun Certification Training Guide (310-025, 310-027): Java™ 2 Programmer and Developer Exams

Chapter 5, “Flow Control and Exception Handling”

Java provides a wide array of operators and commands to control program flow and handle exceptions. These operators and commands are summarized in Table 1.

Table 1. Operators and Commands for Flow Control and Exception Handling

Statement	Description	Example
empty	A statement consisting of just; that performs no operation.	;
block	A group of statements enclosed by { and }. The statement block is treated as a single statement when used with selection, interation, and other statements.	{ x += y; if(x==100) return y; )
declaration	A statement that declares a variable of being of a particular type and optionally assigns a value to the variable.	String s = "abcd";
labeled	Statements can be labeled by preceding ...