Source for java.lang.Error

   1: /* Error.java -- Indication of fatal abnormal conditions
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   3: 
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  37: 
  38: 
  39: package java.lang;
  40: 
  41: /**
  42:  * Applications should not try to catch errors since they indicate
  43:  * abnormal conditions.  An abnormal condition is something which should not
  44:  * occur, or which should not be recovered from.  This latter category
  45:  * includes <code>ThreadDeath</code> and <code>AssertionError</code>.
  46:  *
  47:  * <p>A method is not required to declare any subclass of <code>Error</code> in
  48:  * its <code>throws</code> clause which might be thrown but not caught while
  49:  * executing the method.
  50:  *
  51:  * @author Brian Jones
  52:  * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@cygnus.com)
  53:  * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu)
  54:  * @since 1.0
  55:  * @status updated to 1.4
  56:  */
  57: public class Error extends Throwable
  58: {
  59:   /**
  60:    * Compatible with JDK 1.0+.
  61:    */
  62:   private static final long serialVersionUID = 4980196508277280342L;
  63: 
  64:   /**
  65:    * Create an error without a message. The cause remains uninitialized.
  66:    *
  67:    * @see #initCause(Throwable)
  68:    */
  69:   public Error()
  70:   {
  71:   }
  72: 
  73:   /**
  74:    * Create an error with a message. The cause remains uninitialized.
  75:    *
  76:    * @param s the message string
  77:    * @see #initCause(Throwable)
  78:    */
  79:   public Error(String s)
  80:   {
  81:     super(s);
  82:   }
  83: 
  84:   /**
  85:    * Create an error with a message and a cause.
  86:    *
  87:    * @param s the message string
  88:    * @param cause the cause of this error
  89:    * @since 1.4
  90:    */
  91:   public Error(String s, Throwable cause)
  92:   {
  93:     super(s, cause);
  94:   }
  95: 
  96:   /**
  97:    * Create an error with a given cause, and a message of
  98:    * <code>cause == null ? null : cause.toString()</code>.
  99:    *
 100:    * @param cause the cause of this error
 101:    * @since 1.4
 102:    */
 103:   public Error(Throwable cause)
 104:   {
 105:     super(cause);
 106:   }
 107: }