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- Applications can run into many kinds of errors during execution.
- Java exceptions provide a clean way to check for errors without cluttering code, and provide a mechanism to signal errors directly.
- Exceptions are also part of a method's contract.
- An exception is thrown when an unexpected error condition is encountered.
- The exception is then caught be an encompassing clause further up the method invocation stack.
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