Java checked exceptions are a handy abstraction in sequential flows. But add threads and the syntactical support is no longer available. This article investigates how to overcome that limitation.

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 ...

The code in Listing 2 consists of various try/catch/finally blocks nested within one another. You can place try/catch/finally, try/catch, or try/finally blocks anywhere in your Java code. In addition, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Java exceptions are conditions that make it impossible for the computer to continue executing a Java program's code and subsequently crash the application. They come from within the Java source ...