Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.

To solve these problems, Java embraced a new approach to exception handling. In Java, we combine objects that describe exceptions with a mechanism based on throwing and catching these objects.

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 ...

Exception handling best practices The resolution to the log and rethrow antipattern? Just get used to logging exceptions when, and only when, they are handled. That puts all exception logging in one ...

Aborting."); System.exit(1); } Some other good features of Java exception handling are checked exceptions, user-defined exceptions, and the new Java logging API coming out in JDK 1.4.

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 that callers should always deal ...