An exception, simply put, is something going wrong during the course of program execution. Exception handling is the term used to describe how the program will deal with these exceptions. When an ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have recently read and heard about situations in which Flex error handling is misunderstood. In this blog entry, I’ll attempt to demonstrate, with a simple ...

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 ...

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 ...