THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition

public class NoSuchAttributeException extends Exception { public final String attrName; public NoSuchAttributeException(String n ...

exception. 12.2.1. Transfer of Control When an exception is thrown, the statement or expression that caused the exception is sai ...

The contract defined by the throws clause is strictly enforcedyou can throw only a type of checked exception that has been decla ...

12.3.1. tHRows Clauses and Method Overriding When you override an inherited method, or implement an inherited abstract method, t ...

where either at least one catch clause, or the finally clause, must be present. The body of the try statement is executed until ...

// Catches both SuperException and SubException } catch (SubException subRef) { // This would never be reached } } } Only one ex ...

If pre succeeds then we enter the try block and no matter what occurs we are guaranteed that post gets executed. Conversely, if ...

When the TRy block executes its return, the finally block is entered with the "reason" of returning the value 1. However, inside ...

Here initCause is used to remember the exception that made the data bad. This means that the invoking code can handle all bad da ...

Note that an exception can only have it's cause set onceeither via a constructor, or by a single call to initCauseany attempt to ...

know about StreamEndException, this construction can be confusing since it moves the loop termination from inside the for loop i ...

By default, assertions are not evaluated. It is possible to turn assertion evaluation on and off for packages, classes, and enti ...

12.9.1. State Assertions Some assertions are used to test that the current state is always as it should be. public void setEnds( ...

12.9.2. Control Flow Assertions You can also use assertions to verify that the control flow of some code is always what you want ...

12.10.1. Why Turn Assertions On and Off? The first question to answer is why you would want to be able to switch assertion evalu ...

This applies the option to the Evaluator class and any of its nested types. If you are using assertions in your code, the obviou ...

12.10.4. Making Assertions Required Sometimes (rarely) you may need to ensure that some class never has its assertions turned of ...

Returns the char in this sequence at the given index. Sequences are indexed from zero to length()-1 (just as arrays are indexed) ...

Constructs a new String with the same contents as the given StringBuilder. publicString(StringBuffer value) Constructs a new Str ...

lastIndexOf(int ch) last position of ch lastIndexOf(int ch, int start) last position of ch start lastIndexOf(String str) last po ...