This document discusses exception handling in Java programs. It defines exceptions as events that disrupt normal program flow when errors occur. When an error happens within a method, the method creates an exception object and passes it to the runtime system. The runtime system then attempts to find exception handling code to catch and handle the exception. Exception handling code consists of throwing exceptions when errors are detected and catching exceptions to take appropriate actions. An example program demonstrates trying to parse user input as integers within a try-catch block to handle potential number format exceptions.