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 ...

Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...

Hmmm, it was a number of years ago but I specifically remember having issues where we weren't able to determine which of a set of lines in the same "catch" block were throwing a hard-to-reproduce ...

Writing succinct and elegant JDBC code can be difficult. You have to create a few different objects and catch numerous checked exceptions, even if you can't reasonably recover from them. Closing a ...