Thirty years later, Java remains one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, embedded in everything from enterprise servers to cloud-native applications.

Indeed notes that a foundational feature of the language, the Java virtual machine, makes programming with Java easier across different environments.

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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 ...