In my next article, we’ll discuss Java’s more advanced exception handling capabilities. Failure occurs when a Java program’s normal behavior is interrupted by unexpected behavior.

The perpetual debate on exception handling in Java can at best be described as ... from a checked or an unchecked base. The class diagram below shows our basic exception hierarchy.

As a consequence, several anti-patterns about Exception-handling are already identified in literature. In this study, we have picked several releases from different Java programs and we investigated ...