An Example of Recursion, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion

RecursionMethodDemo.java

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;

public class RecursionMethodDemo {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		List<String> list = new ArrayList<String>();
		list.add("hello");
		list.add("world");
		list.add("beautiful");
		list.add("girl");
		recursion(list, 0);
	}

	public static void recursion(List<String> list, int ix) {
		if (ix >= list.size()) {
			return;
		}
		try {
			doSomething(list.get(ix));
			// just an example, so i take an exception to control the logic
			// flow, better not do this in critical condition
		} catch (IOException e) {
			System.err.println(ix + 1);
			recursion(list, ix + 1);
		}
	}

	public static void doSomething(String msg) throws IOException {
		int seed = (int) Math.floor(new Random().nextFloat() * 10 + 1);
		if (seed == 4 || seed == 5 || seed == 8) {
			throw new IOException(
					"I'm not going to do that, you can change another one...");
		}
		System.out.println(msg);
	}
}