In the exception handling code, we want to have as few lines of code as possible. Also, it is highly desirable to funnel both normal exceptions (disconnect, connection refused) alongside the weirder ...

Exception handling: The good, the bad, and the ugly 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.

Exceptions are errors that occur at runtime; exception handling is the technique of handling these runtime errors. You would typically use try, catch, and finally blocks (also known as exception ...