For Java developers, extending Flex’s Error class and catching thrown Flex errors (either Error or any of its children) will seem very similar to exception handling in Java.

To solve these problems, Java embraced a new approach to exception handling. In Java, we combine objects that describe exceptions with a mechanism based on throwing and catching these objects.

Don't let the occurrence of a RuntimeException in Java bring your code to a standstill. Here are 10 examples of how to avoid runtime exceptions in Java.

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