Errata for OCP: Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 8 Programmer II Study Guide - Chapter 6

[T Vergilio]

Page 302, just a minor.

Last sentence in the Real World Scenario box:

Since Closeable meets the requirements for AutoCloseable, it started implementing AutoCloseable when the latter was introduced.

Technically, it started extending AutoCloseable because Closeable is an interface.

[T Vergilio]

And on page 314, 3rd paragraph of the Summary:

The variable in a multi-catch expression is effectively final.

Should be implicitly final.

An exception parameter of a multi-catch clause is implicitly declared final, so will never occur as the left-hand operand of an assignment operator, but it is not considered effectively final.

source: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-14.html#jls-14.20.1

[T Vergilio]

page 561, answer to question 13:

Since a multi-catch is used, the variable in the catch block is effectively final and cannot be reassigned.

Same issue, shouldn't it be implicitly final?

[T Vergilio]

I just noticed that the examples in the Rethrowing Exceptions section of Chapter 6 (starting on page 305) treat DateTimeParseException as if it's a checked exception.
But DateTimeParseException extends DateTimeException, which extends RuntimeException.

On page 305:

Suppose that we have a method that declares two checked exceptions:

public void parseData() throws SQLException, DateTimeParseException{}

On page 306:

(...) we need to handle or declare those two exception types.

and so on.

Perhaps DateTimeParseException could be swapped for ParseException in the examples?

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Sorry, this one slipped through the cracks.

page 302 - agreed and logged
page 314 and 561 - interesting. I wasn’t aware of that distinction. It makes sense though. It’s a hacky type of final . Cow for teaching me something!

The DateTimeException was noticed here. You noticed it first, but I logged it first from that thread.

[T Vergilio]

Thanks for checking these. And thanks for the cow! To be honest, I didn't even know what effectively final was before I read your book. It's all an ongoing learning process