A common software antipattern is to log and rethrow exceptions in Java. Here we explain why doing so will make troubleshooting errors harder.

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 ...

Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.

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 ...