I’m trying to grasp try-catch-finally in Java. I have two questions. These questions might sound silly, please bear in mind that I’m still a beginner. 1) Is it possible/recommended to just ...

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 ...

Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring ...

That excellent article warned against catching java.lang.Exception or java.lang.Throwable as a bad, catch-all practice. Catching the most specific exception you can is important for code ...