A recent JavaWorld Community forum message (Stack Overflow after instantiating new object) reminded me that the basics of the StackOverflowError are not always ...

If there's one golden rule of programming, it's this: errors occur in software programs. This we know. But what really matters is what happens after the error occurs ...

If you’ve ever wanted to understand how failure is represented in source code, you’ve come to the right place. In addition to an overview of Java exceptions, this article gets you started with Java’s ...

Normally, you don’t care about first-chance exceptions -- it's only when something becomes a second-chance exception that you start to pay attention. But when you do care about all the exceptions, ...