Functional programming offers several useful alternatives to traditional exception handling techniques. However, understanding how checked exceptions work and how to handle them in your code ...

In this Java Q&A installment, I show how any Java method can throw an arbitrary exception— checked or unchecked —with relative ease and without employing any native code.

The program example above tries to open a text file, read in the text, and print that text to the screen. The code block responsible for doing that work is enclosed in a try/catch block. That ...

Even though exception handling is common and every introductory Java course covers it, I still don't think we really know how to do it well. It is almost as if the general concept is still ...

Everyone who codes Java EE web applications needs to pay attention to exception handling. When a program encounters an error, developers can display friendly messages for end users, which ...