In Java, exceptions are one of many structures that govern the control flow of a program. Specifically, they are unintended side effects of a program's normal execution. When writing code that can ...

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 ...

Error handling, also called exception handling, is a big part of Java, but it’s also one of the more divisive elements. Exception handling allows a developer to ...

Each JVM thread (a path of execution) is associated with a stack that’s created when the thread is created. This data structure is divided into frames, which are data structures associated with method ...

Kind of weird question -- what is effect on the sever of having to handle a NPE? Does it "hurt" the server in terms of resources, memory, etc? Obviously it's not a good situation and it should be ...

Kotlin, a high-performance, statically typed “pragmatic language” that leverages the environment of Java Virtual Machine, has reached its official 1.0 release milestone. Created by IDE makers ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java 9 introduced JShell, a read-evaluate-print and loop (REPL) tool that greatly simplifies ...