To solve these problems, Java embraced a new approach to exception handling. In Java, we combine objects that describe exceptions with a mechanism based on throwing and catching these objects.

Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.

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 ...

This article examines three sides of Java exception handling, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and offer some tips you can use along the way.

When an exception occurs in your Java code, you can log it or you can rethrow it -- but don't do both. Here's why you must avoid that exception handling antipattern.

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 that callers should always deal ...