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  Error
  public

  Inherits From:   Throwable : Object
  Conforms To:   none
  Declared In:   java.lang


Exception Description
 
An Error is a subclass of Throwable that indicates serious problems that a reasonable application should not try to catch. Most such errors are abnormal conditions. The ThreadDeath error, though a "normal" condition, is also a subclass of Error because most applications should not try to catch it.

A method is not required to declare in its throws clause any subclasses of Error that might be thrown during the execution of the method but not caught, since these errors are abnormal conditions that should never occur.



Class Variables
 
None declared in this exception.


Instance Variables
 
None declared in this exception.


Constructors
 
Error
public Error( )

Constructs a new error with null as its detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be initialized by a call to initCause.


Error
public Error( String message )

Constructs a new error with the specified detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be initialized by a call to initCause.


Error
public Error( String message, Throwable cause )

Constructs a new error with the specified detail message and cause.

Note that the detail message associated with cause is not automatically incorporated in this error's detail message.


Error
public Error( Throwable cause )

Constructs a new error with the specified cause and a detail message of (cause==null ? null : cause.toString()) (which typically contains the class and detail message of cause). This constructor is useful for errors that are little more than wrappers for other throwables.



Class Methods
 
None declared in this exception.


Instance Methods
 
None declared in this exception.


Known Subclasses
 
AssertionError, AWTError, CoderMalfunctionError, FactoryConfigurationError, LinkageError, ThreadDeath, TransformerFactoryConfigurationError, VirtualMachineError



 
 
  dydoc
  3/10/05