With exception chaining in our 1.4 toolboxes, there’s no longer any excuse for sloppy exception handling.

I recently wrote that the chapter in Effective Java devoted to exception handling has been one of the most influential software development chapters I have read.

Learn everything you need to throw, try, catch, and clean up after Java exceptions in your programs.

Not sure what a try catch is? We explain how to use a try catch block in Java and how to write methods that throw exceptions.

This article examines three sides of Java exception handling, the good, the bad, and the ugly, and offer some tips you can use along the way.