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 ...

Exceptions are the customary way in Java to indicate to a calling method that an abnormal condition has occurred. This article discusses two techniques to use when working with exceptions: nesting and ...

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Hmmm, it was a number of years ago but I specifically remember having issues where we weren't able to determine which of a set of lines in the same "catch" block were throwing a hard-to-reproduce ...

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 ...