While some programmers believe checked exceptions are a good language feature, others would disagree. In this post, Jeff introduces checked exceptions, then dives into the debate.

Radia Perlman discusses various internet protocols like Ethernet and IP, and the difference between theory and practice when people browse the Internet. Leslie Miley discusses how the road to ...

If you’ve ever wanted to understand how failure is represented in source code, you’ve come to the right place. In addition to an overview of Java exceptions, this article gets you started with Java’s ...

Every subclass of java.lang.Exception is a checked exception. A checked exception is one that must be advertised from the method that throws it and must either be caught or advertised from the caller.

• Checked Exceptions are exceptions that are checked by the Java compiler. The compiler is looking to see that your program is either performing exception handling through a try/catch block or ...

Java checked exceptions are a handy abstraction for a sequential workflow. When thread switches are introduced, even though the exception abstraction remains valid at the description level, the ...