How Can I Catch All Possible Exceptions in Java?

All exceptions come from the "mother class" called java.lang.Throwable and one of two subclasses called java.lang.Error and java.lang.Exception. A block of code that is executed when an exception occurs is called an Exception handler. By catching java.lang.Throwable, it is possible to handle all unexpected conditions.

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try {
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catch(Throwable e) {
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}
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There are some special exceptions that used by the JVM, those are the sub-classes of java.lang.Error. We are not suppose the catch them in our real code and we usually catch java.lang.Exception for all application and runtime exceptions.

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try {
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catch(Exception e) {
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}
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