In this article, you’ll learn about basic language features and library types. In my next article, we’ll discuss Java’s more advanced exception handling capabilities.

To help programmers both anticipate and recover from runtime errors, the Java programming language defines a special class named the RuntimeException. Given their potential to stop an otherwise ...

Suppressed exceptions play a significant role in the execution of the new-to-Java 7 try-with-resources statement (also known as Automatic Resource Management [ARM]).