Runtime errors occur when something goes wrong in the normal execution of a program. When severe enough, these errors abruptly terminate an application. To help programmers both anticipate and recover ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Recursion in Java gets a bad rap. Experienced developers shun the practice over fears that an ...

Error handling, also called exception handling, is a big part of Java, but it’s also one of the more divisive elements. Exception handling allows a developer to ...

Java’s recent security woes are not scaring off developers, who don’t see Java as any more vulnerable than any other platform. “There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with Java,” says Gonzalo Diethelm, ...

As in past conversations, AppDynamics points out that it is very difficult to understand performance issues in complex, distributed, Java-based applications. What should be measured, how it should be ...