Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Handling Java exceptions can be tricky. Which Java exceptions should you catch, and which ...

If there's one golden rule of programming, it's this: errors occur in software programs. This we know. But what really matters is what happens after the error occurs ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Java is one of the most in-demand and widely used programming languages in the world, it is not without its detractors. Java is not a particularly beginner-friendly language and it is rife with ...

Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, ...

Before we understand why finalize is going away and what to use instead, let’s understand what finalize is or was. The basic idea is to allow you to define a method on your objects that will execute ...