Java projects rarely feature a consistent and thorough exception-handling strategy. Often, developers add the mechanism as an afterthought or an as-you-go addition. Significant reengineering ...

Some exceptions in Java must be handled in the developer's code. Other exceptions can occur without any exception handling semantics at all. When an exception must be handled with try-and-catch ...

Java developers learn to rely on their compilers to catch assignments to incorrect types, calls of nonexistent methods and—this article's topic—incorrect exception handling.