Java 1.4 introduced so many highly useful features that many projects were slow to migrate to J2SE 5 or Java SE 6. Even with all of these great new features, the simple exception chaining mechanism ...

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 ...

I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software development chapters I have read. The value of this chapter was ...

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 ...

Logging and exception handling are like two peas in a pod. When a problem happens in your Java code, that typically means you have an exception that needs to be ...

In Java, exceptions are one of many structures that govern the control flow of a program. Specifically, they are unintended side effects of a program's normal execution. When writing code that can ...