Java’s compile-time checking does a pretty good job of keeping exceptions safely caged—you can’t call a method that throws a checked exception without catching the exception or declaring that your own ...

While working on a recent project, I found a piece of code that performed resource cleanup. Because it had many diverse calls, it could potentially throw six different exceptions. The original ...

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Even though exception handling is common and every introductory Java course covers it, I still don't think we really know how to do it well. It is almost as if the general concept is still evolving ...

Apache Struts, the web application framework, helps developers get Java web apps up and running in next to no time, using a Model-View-Controller framework. One important part of creating a great app ...

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