The proper use of exceptions can make your programs easier to develop and maintain, freer from bugs, and simpler to use. When exceptions are misused, the opposite situation prevails: programs perform ...

An exception, simply put, is something going wrong during the course of program execution. Exception handling is the term used to describe how the program will deal with these exceptions. When an ...

Even though exception handling is common and every introductory Java course covers it, I still don't think we really know how to do it well. It is almost as if the general concept is still evolving ...

In Part 1 of this series, I looked at some general concepts surrounding sensible exception use in Java programs. In this article, I focus in greater depth on a particular exception-handling technique ...

Every time software runs, there's a potential for an error to occur that could grind the application to a halt. The Java programming language provides a number of ...