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1: /* Exception.java -- generic exception thrown to indicate an exceptional 2: condition has occurred. 3: Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 4: 5: This file is part of GNU Classpath. 6: 7: GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 8: it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 9: the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 10: any later version. 11: 12: GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 13: WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 14: MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 15: General Public License for more details. 16: 17: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 18: along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 19: Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 20: 02110-1301 USA. 21: 22: Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 23: making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 24: conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 25: combination. 26: 27: As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 28: permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 29: executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 30: modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 31: terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 32: independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 33: module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 34: or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 35: this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 36: obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 37: exception statement from your version. */ 38: 39: 40: package java.lang; 41: 42: /** 43: * The root class of all exceptions worth catching in a program. This 44: * includes the special category of <code>RuntimeException</code>, which 45: * does not need to be declared in a throws clause. Exceptions can be used 46: * to represent almost any exceptional behavior, such as programming errors, 47: * mouse movements, keyboard clicking, etc. 48: * 49: * @author Brian Jones 50: * @author Warren Levy (warrenl@cygnus.com) 51: * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu) 52: * @status updated to 1.4 53: */ 54: public class Exception extends Throwable 55: { 56: /** 57: * Compatible with JDK 1.0+. 58: */ 59: private static final long serialVersionUID = -3387516993124229948L; 60: 61: /** 62: * Create an exception without a message. The cause remains uninitialized. 63: * 64: * @see #initCause(Throwable) 65: */ 66: public Exception() 67: { 68: } 69: 70: /** 71: * Create an exception with a message. The cause remains uninitialized. 72: * 73: * @param s the message 74: * @see #initCause(Throwable) 75: */ 76: public Exception(String s) 77: { 78: super(s); 79: } 80: 81: /** 82: * Create an exception with a message and a cause. 83: * 84: * @param s the message string 85: * @param cause the cause of this error 86: * @since 1.4 87: */ 88: public Exception(String s, Throwable cause) 89: { 90: super(s, cause); 91: } 92: 93: /** 94: * Create an exception with a given cause, and a message of 95: * <code>cause == null ? null : cause.toString()</code>. 96: * 97: * @param cause the cause of this exception 98: * @since 1.4 99: */ 100: public Exception(Throwable cause) 101: { 102: super(cause); 103: } 104: }