Inheritance and composition are two programming techniques developers use to establish the relationship between classes and objects. Whereas inheritance derives one class from another, composition ...

Logging and exception handling are like two peas in a pod. When a problem happens in your Java code, that typically means you have an exception that needs to be ...

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 ...

Bug tracking is often one of the most difficult processes in software development. Users may have situations different from developers, and bugs that are a big problem for users may not even be ...

A recent JavaWorld Community forum message (Stack Overflow after instantiating new object) reminded me that the basics of the StackOverflowError are not always ...