01: /*
02: * Copyright 1995-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
03: * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
04: *
05: * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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07: * published by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates this
08: * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
09: * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
10: *
11: * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
12: * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
13: * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
14: * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
15: * accompanied this code).
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20: *
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24: */
25:
26: package java.lang;
27:
28: /**
29: * Thrown when an application tries to create an instance of a class
30: * using the {@code newInstance} method in class
31: * {@code Class}, but the specified class object cannot be
32: * instantiated. The instantiation can fail for a variety of
33: * reasons including but not limited to:
34: *
35: * <ul>
36: * <li> the class object represents an abstract class, an interface,
37: * an array class, a primitive type, or {@code void}
38: * <li> the class has no nullary constructor
39: *</ul>
40: *
41: * @author unascribed
42: * @version 1.25, 05/05/07
43: * @see java.lang.Class#newInstance()
44: * @since JDK1.0
45: */
46: public class InstantiationException extends Exception {
47: /**
48: * Constructs an {@code InstantiationException} with no detail message.
49: */
50: public InstantiationException() {
51: super ();
52: }
53:
54: /**
55: * Constructs an {@code InstantiationException} with the
56: * specified detail message.
57: *
58: * @param s the detail message.
59: */
60: public InstantiationException(String s) {
61: super(s);
62: }
63: }
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