Runtime errors can occur without warning and be difficult to resolve. Here are the five most common runtime errors in Java and advice on how to avoid them.

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 ...

Additions to Java 1.4 enable an easier way to chain exceptions. Find out how java.lang.Throwable class and its member field passes error details to the user's log file.