Throws Keyword in Java | throws Keyword in Java Exception Handling with Example | Exception Handling

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If there is any chance of raising checked exception in the program then we should handle either by try-catch or by throws keyword otherwise the code will not compile.

throws is a keyword in Java which is used in the signature of method to indicate that this method might throw one of the listed type exceptions.

throws keyword will delegate the responsibility of exception handling to the caller method.
throws keyword only used for checked exceptions.
throws keyword only for Throwable types otherwise we will get compile time error saying incompatible types.
throws keyword only for constructors and methods but not for classes.