Tag Archives: exception handling

Common exception misuses in Java (and not only)

Posted on March 22, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Exceptions were introduced in many programming languages as a standard method to report and handle errors. If you have ever used functions that return special values (usually -1 or NULL) to indicate an error, you should know how easy it is … Continue reading →

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Try-with-resources

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Robert Piasecki

Java is widely known and respected for its automatic memory management. It makes the programs easier and faster to write because the developers does not have to manually track which objects are no longer used and can be freed or … Continue reading →

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