#checked-exceptions

Interesting Links – 18 Nov 2016

Today’s apparently a Microsoft edition of the interesting links! Almost everything relates back to them this time… From wyvern: “The Error Model” is an article discussing… exceptions. Exception handling and the “checked or unchecked” question is (still) controversial in Java; article provides some interesting context on error handling approaches, and explains how error handling evolved in Midori (Microsoft’s experimental research OS). A fundamental decision when choosing to make your API throw a checked...

Nov 18, 2016 — 2 minute(s) read

#azul #checked-exceptions #deprecation #exception #exceptions #java-9 #jdbc #linux #microsoft #midori #sql-server

Deep Dive: All about Exceptions

Overview Exceptions are a mechanism for java code to signal extraordinary conditions (such as virtual machine errors like running out of memory, code bugs such as passing a negative number to a method that doesn’t accept negative numbers, alternative ways a method can exit, such as an attempt to read from a network socket aborting because the other end severed the connection, and even intentional control flow such as aborting a thread ASAP). They...

Jan 15, 2015 — 21 minute(s) read

#a2 #checked-exceptions #exceptions #rethrowing-exceptions #runtime-exceptions

Use exceptions correctly

In this article we are going to address the common misuse of exceptions, more specifically those times when programmers fail to correctly propagate exceptions. Along the way, and most of this article, we will talk about the differences between runtime and checked exceptions and the ways in which it is appropriate to use them. Runtime exceptions There are two main differences between checked, or “normal,” exceptions, and runtime exceptions: Runtime exceptions don’t have to...

Nov 6, 2014 — 6 minute(s) read

#a1 #checked-exceptions #exceptions #java #rethrowing-exceptions #runtime-exceptions