Java Try Catch Finally blocks without Catch

Question

I\'m reviewing some new code. The program has a try and a finally block only. Since the catch block is excluded, how does the try block work if it encounters an exception

Answer 1

The inner finally is executed prior to throwing the exception to the outer block.

public class TryCatchFinally {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    try{
        System.out.println('A');
        try{
            System.out.println('B');
            throw new Exception("threw exception in B");
        }
        finally
        {
            System.out.println('X');
        }
        //any code here in the first try block 
        //is unreachable if an exception occurs in the second try block
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        System.out.println('Y');
    }
    finally
    {
        System.out.println('Z');
    }
  }
}

Results in

A
B
X
Y
Z