This class forms the root of the error hierarchy in Java. Subclasses of Error, unlike subclasses of Exception, should not be caught and generally cause termination of the program. Subclasses of Error need not be declared in the throws clause of a method definition. This class inherits methods from THRowable but declares none of its own. Each of its constructors simply invokes the corresponding Throwable( ) constructor. See Throwable for details.

Figure 10-20. java.lang.Error

public class Error extends Throwable {
// Public Constructors
     public Error( );  
1.4  public Error(Throwable cause);  
     public Error(String message);  
1.4  public Error(String message, Throwable cause);  
}

Subclasses

AssertionError, LinkageError, ThreadDeath, VirtualMachineError, java.lang.annotation.AnnotationFormatError, java.nio.charset.CoderMalfunctionError, javax.xml.parsers.FactoryConfigurationError, javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactoryConfigurationError