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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Handling Java exceptions can be tricky. Which Java exceptions should you catch, and which ...

The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as a religious war: On one side, you have the proponents of checked exceptions arguing ...

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...