If you’ve ever wanted to understand how failure is represented in source code, you’ve come to the right place. In addition to an overview of Java exceptions, this article gets you started with Java’s ...

Suppose I have a parent class and I want to be able to get a list of all its subclasses. As far as I know there is no inherent way to do this (is there?), but what I can do is have the subclasses ...

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 ...

If there's one golden rule of programming, it's this: errors occur in software programs. This we know. But what really matters is what happens after the error occurs ...

Take advantage of exception chaining in Java 1.4 Your email has been sent Additions to Java 1.4 enable an easier way to chain exceptions. Find out how java.lang ...