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 ...

Exceptions are the customary way in Java to indicate to a calling method that an abnormal condition has occurred. This article discusses two techniques to use when working with exceptions: nesting and ...

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 evolving ...

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 ...