Null pointer exception is an “exception” (error) that is particularly common when programming in Java. For a beginner, this is a confusing and daunting message to receive, but it can be just ...

Sun releases Java's source code under the GPL--except for some third-party chunks and the compatibility test kit. Video: Gosling on Sun's JavaFX Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Exception handling best practices The resolution to the log and rethrow antipattern? Just get used to logging exceptions when, and only when, they are handled. That puts all exception logging in one ...

The Java reference implementation is Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK), which is free and open-sourced under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, with Classpath Exception.

The Java Language Specification states that “an exception will be thrown when semantic constraints are violated,” which basically implies that an exception throws in situations that are ...

Java provides one exception class, but .Net provides three; Visual MainWin is forced to map all three .Net exceptions to the single Java exception. There’s no easy fix; you simply have to write ...

Some people believe checked exceptions are a good language feature but are misused, even in the JDK. With the "experts" being such poor role models, how can we expect ordinary Java programmers to ...