Human history is full of formal pledges to equality, rights and rule of law. However, the lived reality has typically been the opposite: exceptions, privileges and uneven application of rules are the ...

Abstract: The role of exceptions is crucial for the robustness of modern applications and critical systems. Despite this, there is a long debate among researchers, programming language designers, and ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Handling Java exceptions can be tricky. Which Java exceptions should you catch, and which ...

Right-click on a Java method name and "Show Call Hierarchy". No calls from or to the method are displayed. This occurs for any method in my workspace, regardless of how many calls into/out of the ...

Constructors play a key role in all object-oriented programming languages, and Java is no exception. Every class a Java developer creates needs a constructor. Constructors perform numerous important ...

Abstract: When a method throws an exception—its exception precondition—is a crucial element of the method’s documentation that clients should know to properly use it. Unfortunately, exceptional ...

Before we understand why finalize is going away and what to use instead, let’s understand what finalize is or was. The basic idea is to allow you to define a method on your objects that will execute ...

What aspect of the language would you like to see improved? The types and hierarchy of exception classes. What are the reasons? Currently Crystal exception types are essentially all direct children of ...

Java provides a means to conveniently serialize data to maintain its integrity as it's sent over a network. Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in the deserialization process if there aren't ...