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Exceptions are an important aspect of Java programming because they enable us to deal efficiently, and in an object-oriented manner, with unusual program flow, whether it is caused by technical issues or business processes. Prior to languages with built-in exception handling, such issues had to be dealt with by manually passing error codes around a program, without any encapsulation or standard ways of handling them.
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Parsons, D. (2012). Exception Handling. In: Foundational Java. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2479-5_9
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