In my next article, we’ll discuss Java’s more advanced exception handling capabilities. Failure occurs when a Java program’s normal behavior is interrupted by unexpected behavior.

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 ...

Some other good features of Java exception handling are checked exceptions, user-defined exceptions, and the new Java logging API coming out in JDK 1.4. Every subclass of java.lang.Exception is a ...

In answering this question, I will highlight a more general technique and an approach to exception handling in large systems that runs contrary to established Java wisdom. This would place users of ...