Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Handling Java exceptions can be tricky. Which Java exceptions should you catch, and which ...

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 ...

The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as a religious war: On one side, you have the proponents of checked exceptions arguing ...

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 ...