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 ...

The term "Runtime Exception" could mean a) an exception that happens at run-time (which is implied by Exception anyways), or b) an exception in the Runtime environment. For example, if the Java VM ...

I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software development chapters I have read. The value of this chapter was ...