I’ll walk you down the memory lane of event handling in Java desktop applications and explain how earlier event models relate to the single-threaded programming model used today.

When an exception occurs in your Java code, you can log it or you can rethrow it -- but don't do both. Here's why you must avoid that exception handling antipattern.

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.

Test your knowledge of exception handling in Java with this tough, 10-question, multiple choice quiz.