Chapter Summary

The following information was included in this chapter:

• explanation of the selection statements: if, if-else, switch

• explanation of the iteration statements: for, while, do-while

• explanation of the transfer statements: break, continue, return

• discussion of exception handling and exception classes in the core APIs

• defining new exception types

• explanation of the try-catch-finally construct and control flow paths through the construct

• throwing explicit exceptions with the throw statement

• using the throws clause to specify checked exceptions

• explanation of the assert statement

• using, compiling, and executing assertions