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Suppose, for example, that you want to open a file for reading using a FileInputStream instance. You can acknowledge that the attempt may throw an exception by embedding the reading expressions in a block following the try keyword.

Java stops executing statements in the try block as soon as an exception is thrown:

try { 
 ...   <-- An attempt to attach a stream to a file occurs here 
}