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 ...

Hmmm, it was a number of years ago but I specifically remember having issues where we weren't able to determine which of a set of lines in the same "catch" block were throwing a hard-to-reproduce ...

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 ...

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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, ...

Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...