/* * Copyright 1995-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or * have any questions. */ package java.lang; /** * {@code RuntimeException} is the superclass of those * exceptions that can be thrown during the normal operation of the * Java Virtual Machine. * *

{@code RuntimeException} and its subclasses are unchecked * exceptions. Unchecked exceptions do not need to be * declared in a method or constructor's {@code throws} clause if they * can be thrown by the execution of the method or constructor and * propagate outside the method or constructor boundary. * * @author Frank Yellin * @jls3 11.2 Compile-Time Checking of Exceptions * @since JDK1.0 */ public class RuntimeException extends Exception { static final long serialVersionUID = -7034897190745766939L; /** Constructs a new runtime exception with {@code null} as its * detail message. The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be * initialized by a call to {@link #initCause}. */ public RuntimeException() { super(); } /** Constructs a new runtime exception with the specified detail message. * The cause is not initialized, and may subsequently be initialized by a * call to {@link #initCause}. * * @param message the detail message. The detail message is saved for * later retrieval by the {@link #getMessage()} method. */ public RuntimeException(String message) { super(message); } /** * Constructs a new runtime exception with the specified detail message and * cause.

Note that the detail message associated with * {@code cause} is not automatically incorporated in * this runtime exception's detail message. * * @param message the detail message (which is saved for later retrieval * by the {@link #getMessage()} method). * @param cause the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the * {@link #getCause()} method). (A null value is * permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or * unknown.) * @since 1.4 */ public RuntimeException(String message, Throwable cause) { super(message, cause); } /** Constructs a new runtime exception 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 runtime exceptions * that are little more than wrappers for other throwables. * * @param cause the cause (which is saved for later retrieval by the * {@link #getCause()} method). (A null value is * permitted, and indicates that the cause is nonexistent or * unknown.) * @since 1.4 */ public RuntimeException(Throwable cause) { super(cause); } }