Events are not exclusive to the Java platform; they existed before Java and were popularized by graphical user interfaces like Windows and the X Window System. These graphic-intensive systems are ...

The Java 1.0 event model. GUI programming for what was then known simply as Java (rather than the Java platform) started life with a wacky containment model for event handling.

The program must be able to handle exceptions so its current operation -- disrupted due to the exception -- can finish without further problems or errors. Almost all popular programming languages, ...