Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as a religious war: On one side, you have the proponents of checked exceptions arguing ...

Some exceptions in Java must be handled in the developer's code. Other exceptions can occur without any exception handling semantics at all. When an exception must be handled with try-and-catch ...

Error handling, also called exception handling, is a big part of Java, but it’s also one of the more divisive elements. Exception handling allows a developer to ...

Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own ...