MCS-287 Homework 5 (Spring 2010)

Due April 15, 2010

• Exercise 17.x1: For each of the following two Java statements, indicate whether it is legal, and if so, explain under what circumstances each exception handler would execute. The first version is

          try {
              System.in.read();
          } catch(java.io.CharConversionException e2){
              System.err.println("Caught a CharConversionException.");
          } catch(java.io.IOException e1){
              System.err.println("Caught an IOException.");
          }
  

  and the second version is

          try {
              System.in.read();
          } catch(java.io.IOException e1){
              System.err.println("Caught an IOException.");
          } catch(java.io.CharConversionException e2){
              System.err.println("Caught a CharConversionException.");
          }
  

• Do exercise 18.6 on page 384.