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 ...

I know we've had many fine threads on exceptions in Java. Hopefully this particular question hasn't been discussed to death. I solved Problem 11 on Project Euler today. It requires you to do a bunch ...

Q: I am calling an external method in my application and want to intercept any exceptions it can possibly throw. Should I catch java.lang.Exception ? public class Main { public static void main (final ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sun releases Java's source code under the GPL--except for some third-party chunks and the compatibility test kit. Video: Gosling on Sun's JavaFX Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...