Java 7 adds a new exception class called ReflectiveOperationException. The Javadoc documentation describes this class as a “Common superclass of exceptions thrown by reflective operations in core ...

While working on a recent project, I found a piece of code that performed resource cleanup. Because it had many diverse calls, it could potentially throw six different exceptions. The original ...

Exceptions are the customary way in Java to indicate to a calling method that an abnormal condition has occurred. This article discusses two techniques to use when working with exceptions: nesting and ...