diff between checked and unchecked exceptions

[sitaram irrinki]

What is the difference between checked exception and runtime
exception

[Choopong Songcharoenkij]

Brief explanation.

Checked Exceptions are exceptions that the programmer is expected to handle in the program and arise from external conditions that can readily arise in a working program. Examples would be a requested file not being found or a network failure.

Unchecked Exceptions, Error & RuntimeException and their subclasses, might arise from conditions that represent bugs: RuntimeException, or situations that are generally considered too difficult for a programmer to reasonably handle: Error.

In a programming view, u must handle checked exceptions by declaring them in a throw clause of a method or catch them. But need not for unchecked exceptions.

[Sathya Srinivasan]

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