001 /* RuntimeException.java -- root of all unchecked exceptions 002 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039 package java.lang; 040 041 /** 042 * All exceptions which are subclasses of <code>RuntimeException</code> 043 * can be thrown at any time during the execution of a Java virtual machine. 044 * Methods which throw these exceptions are not required to declare them 045 * in their throws clause. 046 * 047 * @author Brian Jones 048 * @author Warren Levy (warrenl@cygnus.com) 049 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu) 050 * @status updated to 1.4 051 */ 052 public class RuntimeException extends Exception 053 { 054 /** 055 * Compatible with JDK 1.0+. 056 */ 057 private static final long serialVersionUID = -7034897190745766939L; 058 059 /** 060 * Create an exception without a message. The cause remains uninitialized. 061 * 062 * @see #initCause(Throwable) 063 */ 064 public RuntimeException() 065 { 066 } 067 068 /** 069 * Create an exception with a message. The cause remains uninitialized. 070 * 071 * @param s the message string 072 * @see #initCause(Throwable) 073 */ 074 public RuntimeException(String s) 075 { 076 super(s); 077 } 078 079 /** 080 * Create an exception with a message and a cause. 081 * 082 * @param s the message string 083 * @param cause the cause of this exception 084 * @since 1.4 085 */ 086 public RuntimeException(String s, Throwable cause) 087 { 088 super(s, cause); 089 } 090 091 /** 092 * Create an exception with the given cause, and a message of 093 * <code>cause == null ? null : cause.toString()</code>. 094 * 095 * @param cause the cause of this exception 096 * @since 1.4 097 */ 098 public RuntimeException(Throwable cause) 099 { 100 super(cause); 101 } 102 }