Thread: Can't compile classes due to exception problems

These are the error messages that shows up when I try to compile it:

Main.java:16: error: unreported exception FileNotFoundException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
FileReader fr = new FileReader ("a.txt"); /*thrown FileNotFoundException;*/
^
Main.java:18: error: unreported exception IOException; must be caught or declared to be thrown
fr.close();
^

Here is my code

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.List;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.FileReader;
 
 
public class Main {
  public static void main (String [] args) {
    String configurationFile = "a.txt";
    FileReader fr = new FileReader ("a.txt"); /*thrown FileNotFoundException;*/
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader (fr);
    fr.close();
  }
}

Thanks for any input

Have a look at the following page which discuss the use of exceptions

Lesson: Exceptions (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes)

How to throw and catch them for example. You need to be catching these exceptions as they are checked exceptions, this means you cannot compile without handling these in one way or another.

Chris