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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

EJ-60 Favor the use of standart exceptions

Ref: Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

One of the attributes that most strongly distinguishes expert programmers from less experienced ones is that experts strive for and usually achieve a high degree of code reuse. The Java platform libraries provide a basic set of unchecked exceptions that cover a large fraction of the exception-throwing needs of most APIs.

Reusing preexisting exceptions has several benefits.
  • makes your API easier to learn because it matches established conventions with which programmers are already familiar.
  • programs using your API are easier to read because they aren't cluttered with unfamiliar exceptions
Some of the more commonly used exception types are:
NullPointerException : Parameter value is null where prohibited
IllegalArgumentException : Non-null parameter value is inappropriate
IllegalStateException : Object state is inappropriate for method invocation
IndexOutOfBoundsException : Index parameter is out of range
UnsupportedOperationException : Object does not support the method

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