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My use case for checked exceptions

Checked exceptions are an idiomatic Java feature that has been questioned by many in the last years: throws clauses specify the possible errors raised by a method, and the calling code is forced to deal with them at compile-time, by wrapping the call into a...

7 replies - 4098 views - 01/31/12 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

What's the Best Way to Handle Exceptions?

It seems, given my limited experience, that handling exceptions depends entirely on the context in which you are developing. As a fan of "rules" that can be applied to different scenarios I wanted to hit you guys up and see what the rules-of-thumb...

16 replies - 7729 views - 10/03/08 by Riyad Kalla in News

Improving Exception Handling: One Subtle, One Radical Approach

Exception handling via try...catch...finally has some pointless headaches that really don't have any good reasons for their existence.The ProblemConsider a classic database/session hunk of code:try { DBConnection connection =...

10 replies - 6084 views - 08/07/08 by James Sugrue in News