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 ...

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.

The Java platform includes a variety of language features and library types for dealing with exceptions, which are divergences from expected program behavior. In my previous article, you learned ...

Dealing with exceptions isn't limited to simply registering the fact that an exception occurred. When Java applications throw an exception, the Java Virtual Machine generates an exception object ...

To help programmers both anticipate and recover from runtime errors, the Java programming language defines a special class named the RuntimeException. Given their potential to stop an otherwise ...

A good example would be the FileNotFoundException. This does exactly what it says on the tin: this exception is “thrown” when Java looks for a particular file and can’t find it.

The Java Standard Library provides a lot of functionality. However, it doesn't always provide the features needed to interface directly to the underlying system. Enter JNI, which lets you safely and ...

By declaring that a method throws java.lang.Exception, all the issues in Listing A are forced upon the API users, so they can't deal with exceptions professionally.