Guide to NullPointerException in Java And How to Avoid it
Published in
9 min readMar 11, 2023
NullPointerException
(or NPE
for short) is one of those dreaded exceptions that every Java developer has to face in their career. Before we discuss this exception, why and when it exists and how to avoid it in detail, let's first understand the concept of null
in Java, which is the culprit behind NullPointerException
.