Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

Before we understand why finalize is going away and what to use instead, let’s understand what finalize is or was. The basic idea is to allow you to define a method on your objects that will execute ...

Logging and exception handling are like two peas in a pod. When a problem happens in your Java code, that typically means you have an exception that needs to be ...

Assertions are a fairly simple construct added to the soon-to-be released J2SE (Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition) 1.4. As a basic description, an assertion specifies a boolean-typed expression a ...