Catching Exceptions

• Statements in try block are executed
• If no exceptions occur, catch clauses are skipped
• If exception of matching type occurs, execution jumps to catch clause
• If exception of another type occurs, it is thrown until it is caught by another try block
• catch (IOException exception) block
  • exception contains reference to the exception object that was thrown
  • catch clause can analyze object to find out more details
  • exception.printStackTrace(): printout of chain of method calls that lead to exception