if finally gives an exception ?

[mark stone]

what "if" finally produces an exception ?
just asking, i know this should be avoided but just in case if it happens then who catches.....
[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: mark stone ]

[Valentin Crettaz]

JLS 14.19.2 Execution of try-catch-finally
if it happens then it is the reponsability of the caller method to handle the exception thrown...
And why should it be avoided ??
[ February 07, 2002: Message edited by: Valentin Crettaz ]

[Brian Lugo]

Hi Mark!
Please refer to the code below, I hope you can understand what's going on:

class OneException extends Exception {
public OneException(String s) { super(s); }
}
class TwoException extends Exception {
public TwoException(String s) { super(s); }
}


public class TestFinallyExcept {
static void f() throws OneException {
throw new OneException("Just threw OneException from f()");
}

static void g() throws TwoException {
throw new TwoException("Just threw TwoException from g()");
}

public static void main(String[] args) 
throws OneException, TwoException {

try {
try{
f();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Caught the exception in inner catch block");
} finally {
System.out.println("In the inner finally");
g();
}
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println("Caught exception in outer block");
} finally {
System.out.println("In the outer Finally block");
}
}
}