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 ...

Java exception handling with stack traces, exception chaining, try-with-resources, final re-throw, and StackWalker.

An exception, simply put, is something going wrong during the course of program execution. Exception handling is the term used to describe how the program will deal with these exceptions. When an ...

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 ...

Neal Gafter asked a question that many Java developers have asked themselves and each other: "would the language and platform be better off without checked exceptions?" ...

Java contains a built-in construct to handle a class of common code-related runtime errors, called the RuntimeException, or the unchecked exception. Java 17 defines 78 such errors in the SDK alone, ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems' Java is now officially an open-source project--mostly. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based server and software company officially released the software at its OpenJDK Web ...

Sun releases Java's source code under the GPL--except for some third-party chunks and the compatibility test kit. Video: Gosling on Sun's JavaFX Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...