Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own ...

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While working on a recent project, I found a piece of code that performed resource cleanup. Because it had many diverse calls, it could potentially throw six different exceptions. The original ...

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 ...

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When it comes to debugging problems with your code, a good Exception object is your most valuable tool. I've talked before about how why returning information about an exception using the ...

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, ...