Catch vs finally

Question

hi
I was experimenting with catch and finally to see
which block runs first, and as excepted finally block
runs finally. The VM spec says, if there is a return/throw
in catch, finally is run just before returning/throwing. So
the catch block is run fully. What if the finally block
throws an exception, like in the following code.
What happened to the 'Exception from catch'?
public class Finally {
      //This is to test which of catch and finally blocks is run first
      // and also certain caveats of them
      public static void main (String [] args) throws Exception{
            try {
     test();
     System.out.println ("The function ended");
            }catch (Exception e) {
                  System.out.println ("Exception in test: "  + e.getMessage());
     static  public void test() throws Exception {
                 int i = 2;
            try {
                  i ++;
                 throw new Exception ("I am thrown now");
            }catch (Exception e) {
                  System.out.println (e.getMessage());
                  System.out.println ("I am caught now");
                  System.out.println ("i = " + i ++);
                  throw new Exception ("Exception from catch");
            finally {
                  System.out.println ("finally, I am given a chance");
                  System.out.println ("i = " + i );
                  throw new Exception ("Exception from finally");
}

Answer 1

If the finally block has a return statement or throws an exception, then that's what happens instead of any previous return or throws. So if your catchblock rethrows an exception and the finally block returns 42, then the whole try-catch-finally block will return 42 rather than rethrowing the exception.