Logging and exception handling are like two peas in a pod. When a problem happens in your Java code, that typically means you have an exception that needs to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Assertions are a fairly simple construct added to the soon-to-be released J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4. As a basic description, an assertion specifies a boolean-typed expression a ...

Everyone who codes Java EE web applications needs to pay attention to exception handling. When a program encounters an error, developers can display friendly messages for end users, which increases ...