Every subclass of java.lang.Exception is a checked exception. A checked exception is one that must be advertised from the method that throws it and must either be caught or advertised from the caller.

Some exceptions in Java must be handled in the developer's code. Other exceptions can occur without any exception handling semantics at all. When an exception must be handled with try-and-catch ...

The contents of the "try" block are the opcode range 0 - 16, so the "catch" blocks from the Java source are encoded in the first two lines of the Exception table (from 0/to 16/target 16/type ...

Java exception handling with stack traces, exception chaining, try-with-resources, final re-throw, and StackWalker.