160 views117 votes15 years 4 months ago ESAW 2006»
The research on exception handling in Multi-Agent Systems has produced some advanced models to deal with `exceptional situations'. The expression `agent exception' is how...
Java provides a program-level exception handling mechanism in response to error conditions (that are translated into exceptions by Java VM). However, exception handling code is of...
: This paper describes the development of a model for the reflective treatment of both application and environmentally sourced exceptions. We show how a variety of exception models...
One of the challenges present to a Java compiler is Java’s frequent use of runtime exceptions. These exceptions affect performance directly by requiring explicit checks, as wel...
128 views110 votes15 years 7 months ago KBSE 2008»
Exception handling mechanisms have been around for more than 30 years. Nevertheless, modern exceptions systems are not very different from the early models. Programming languages ...
Designers of component-based software face two problems related to dealing with abnormal events: developing exception handling at the level of the integrated system and accommodat...
Java exception checks are designed to ensure that any faulting instruction causing a hardware exception does not terminate the program abnormally. These checks, however, impose so...
127 views92 votes15 years 5 months ago ECOOP 2000»
The support for precise exceptions in Java, combined with frequent checks for runtime exceptions, leads to severe limitations on the compiler’s ability to perform program optimiz...