Even though exception handling is common and every introductory Java course covers it, I still don't think we really know how to do it well. It is almost as if the general concept is still evolving ...

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 have recently read and heard about situations in which Flex error handling is misunderstood. In this blog entry, I’ll attempt to demonstrate, with a simple ...

Logging and exception handling are like two peas in a pod. When a problem happens in your Java code, that typically means you have an exception that needs to be ...

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 ...

Everyone who codes Java EE web applications needs to pay attention to exception handling. When a program encounters an error, developers can display friendly messages for end users, which increases ...

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In "Read and write data with Java's I/O streams," we started to explore the input/output (I/O) classes, interfaces, and operations provided by the Java platform. Now, we'll continue our exploration of ...