exception thrown in finally

[agrah upadhyay]

With regards to every Javaranchers,
I want to ask what happens when an exception is thrown in finally block?
discuss various conditions employed like the exception is rethrown from finally And entirely a new exception is thrown.Also where exception will be caught?If exception is not caught?If finally has return statement?

[Santana Iyer]

if you throw exception in finally it overrides any exception thrown in catch or uncaught of try also even if you return value in try or catch,
so if finally throws or returns something it overrides of try and catch.

if finally thorws checked execption and you must declare in methods throws clause.

[agrah upadhyay]

Hello Mr.Iyer,
Can You Please Be More Clear?
Thanx

[sarang bharambe]

dear Santana Iyer

if finally throws or returns something it overrides of try and catch

can You please elaborate on your statement with an example.

regards
sarang

[Sandeep Chhabra]

Hi,
I think Santana meant that if you return any value in finally block the previous value returned by try or catch block is replaced with the new value.
Similarly if you throw an exception in finally block then only the new exception is forwarded to the calling method, exception thrown by try blcok(if any) is replaced by new exception.

Hope this clears the point.

[Santana Iyer]

agree with sandeep return or exception of finally overrides.