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Exception Handling Best Practices in Java

I’m in the process of migrating some old Java 1.3 code to Java 6 and I really didn’t like the way exceptions were handled in the code. Before rewriting things I did some research as to what are considered the “Best Practices” when it comes to Java exception handling. Although On Java’s Best Practices for [...]

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