Exceptions - Java Software Solutions: Foundations of Program Design - page 539

11.2 Uncaught Exceptions
If a program does not handle the exception at all, it will terminate abnormally
and produce a message that describes what exception occurred and where it was
produced. The information associated with an exception is often helpful in track-
ing down the cause of a problem.
Let's look at the output of an exception. The program shown in Listing 11.1
throws an ArithmeticException when an invalid arithmetic operation is attempted.
In this case, the program attempts to divide by zero.
Because there is no code in this program to handle the exception explicitly,
it terminates when the exception occurs, printing specific information about the
exception. Note that the last println statement in the program never executes,
because the exception occurs first.
LISTING 11.1
//********************************************************************
// Zero.java Author: Lewis/Loftus
//
// Demonstrates an uncaught exception.
//********************************************************************
public class Zero
{
//-----------------------------------------------------------------
// Deliberately divides by zero to produce an exception.
//-----------------------------------------------------------------
public static void main (String[] args)
{
int numerator = 10;
int denominator = 0;
System.out.println (numerator / denominator);
System.out.println ("This text will not be printed.");
}
}
OUTPUT
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero
at Zero.main(Zero.java:17)