When defining your own exception type, study the existing exception classes in the Java API and try to extend a related exception class. For example, if you’re creating a new class to represent when a method attempts a division by zero, you might extend classArithmeticException because division by zero occurs during arithmetic. If the existing classes are not appropriate superclasses for your new exception class, decide whether your new class should be a checked or an unchecked exception class. If clients should berequired to handle the exception, the new exception class should be a checked exception (i.e., extend Exception but notRuntimeException). The client application should be able to reasonably recover from such an exception. If the client code should be able to ignore the exception (i.e., the exception is an unchecked one), the new exception class should extend RuntimeException.