Regarding Exceptions

[shobha devi]

Suppose if a program throws an exception and the appropriate exception handler starts its execution. If exception handler itself throws the same exception. Does this create an infinite recursion?

Please help

[Christophe Verré]

No. The exception is thrown away, and if necessary, has to be caught by another try/catch.

[shobha devi]

can you please explain with code snippet

[Campbell Ritchie]

public void foo() throws Exception
{
    throw new Exception();
}

public void bar() throws Exception
{
    try
    {
        this.foo();
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {
        throw e;
    }
}

[Matthew Brown]

Basically, the exception is handled only if it occurs within the try block. If there's an exception in the catch block it gets thrown to the next level up.

[shobha devi]

@Campbell Ritchie,Matthew Brown,Christophe Verré:thank you so much