Specifications

Sun Services
Java™ Programming Language Module 8, slide 15 of 25
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Method Overriding and Exceptions
The overriding method can throw:
• No exceptions
• One or more of the exceptions thrown by the
overridden method
• One or more subclasses of the exceptions thrown by the
overridden method
The overriding method cannot throw:
• Additional exceptions not thrown by the overridden
method
• Superclasses of the exceptions thrown by the
overridden method