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.

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 ...

The IOException from the example above is a checked exception. Checked exceptions are not runtime exceptions—that is, they don't occur during program operation.

Null pointer exception is an “exception” (error) that is particularly common when programming in Java. For a beginner, this is a confusing and daunting message to receive, but it can be just ...