The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as a religious war: On one side, you have the proponents of checked exceptions arguing that callers should always deal ...

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.

Modern use of unchecked exceptions The technical description of checked vs. unchecked exceptions provided in this article are in line with the manner in which the creators of the Java language ...

In the usual (and conveniently, also the lazy) case where it is a fatal error, the exception propagation terminates the program in a relatively clean and explicit manner.

The reason this can become a nuisance is that some methods in Java will actually force the user to handle exceptions. This is where “try catch” in Java comes into play.

Null pointer exception is an “exception” (error) that is particularly common when programming in Java. For a beginner, this is a confusing and daunting message to receive, but it can be just ...