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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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The pre-Java 9 situation

The JVM throws a StackOverflowError when it is asked to perform data computation in a thread that has insufficient stack space and does not have permission to allocate additional space. This is an asynchronous exception. The JVM can also throw the StackOverflowError exception synchronously when a method is invoked.

When a method is invoked, an internal process is used to report the Stack Overflow. While the current schema works sufficiently for reporting the error, there is no room for the calling application to easily recover from the error. This can result in being more than a nuisance for developers and users. If the StackOverflowError was thrown during a critical computational operation, the data might be corrupted, ...

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