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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While Java is one of the most in-demand and widely used programming languages in the world, it is not without its detractors. Java is not a particularly beginner-friendly language and it is rife with ...

As the name implies, runtime errors occur during the execution of a software program. They occur when an application runs. Any time an application behaves in a way ...

Perhaps the most difficult aspect of getting a freshly written JSR-160 (Remote JMX) compliant application working is ensuring a proper JMXServiceURL. In this blog entry, I cover some of the most ...