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 ...

In the last year or two, interest in "alternative" languages on top of the Java Virtual Machine has grown exponentially, to the point where three languages were blessed with official acceptance in the ...

The original announcement of the GNOME Desktop Project in 1997 stated the following intention, “to use GTK/Scheme bindings for coding small utilities and applications”. Since then, the GNOME ...

This month, I continue my four-part introduction to Java threads by focusing on thread scheduling, the wait/notify mechanism, and thread interruption. You’ll investigate how either a JVM or an ...