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Exception Handling in Java 7 : The Pictorial Way

Published Feb 15, 2018

In this post I am going to introduce you with java 7 modified try-catch block. I am not going to start from scratch, but if some one wants to understand basics of try catch block, do let me know, I will write a separate article. As there are multiple changes to try-catch block I will cover them in series of posts with one change per post.

Change 1 : 

try with multi catch block As you can see in below image now you can reduce duplicate code by using multi-catch.

Some rules of try with multi catch block
#Rule 1 :
Multi catch is only for exception with different inheritance hierarchy.

#Rule 2:

You cannot re-assign value to catch parameter in multi-catch.

#Rule 3:

In Java 7 Exception will not handle all the exceptions, to understand this refer below image

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