Java provides many exception classes that directly subclass Exception. Here are three examples: CloneNotSupportedException signals an attempt to clone an object whose class doesn’t implement the ...

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 ...

Exceptions come with a price, and in order to understand some of the issues involved, let’s look at the mechanism for handling exceptions. The Java Virtual Machine maintains a method-invocation ...

Peter Haggar is an Advisory Software Engineer with IBM in Research Triangle Park, NC. He can be contacted at [email protected]. EXCEPTION HANDLING IS a very powerful and useful feature of the Java ...