I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software ...

Every time software runs, there's a potential for an error to occur that could grind the application to a halt. The Java ...

I know we've had many fine threads on exceptions in Java. Hopefully this particular question hasn't been discussed to death.

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