I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software development chapters I have read.

The semantics of Java exception handling provides plenty of fodder for such people. In JShell, exceptions need not be handled. For example, to output the content of a file in a regular Java program, ...

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in ...