why do JDBC lines of code require a try/catch block be provided. ?
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why do JDBC lines of code require a try/catch block be provided. ?
Re: why do JDBC lines of code require a try/catch block be provided. ?
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Originally Posted by vb_student
Hello
why do JDBC lines of code require a try/catch block be provided. ?
a number of exceptions could be thrown. You may provide a bad password, bad db name, or the connection may fail due to some obscure reason. *Just because you want to establish a connection with a database doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Re: why do JDBC lines of code require a try/catch block be provided. ?
It's been a while since I've done Java, but if I remember correctly, exceptions can be defined as checked or non-checked. A checked exception must either handle the exception, or throw it.
So whoever wrote the JDBC methods thought it was a good idea to have those methods use checked exceptions.
There's a lot of discussion on whether checked exceptions are a good idea or not. I'm not offering an opinion, but that's the way it is in Java.
