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On 9/11/2012 1:16 PM, bob smith wrote:
> Am I the only one who wanted to throw an Exception but couldn't
> because I was overriding a method that threw nothing?
>
> In particular, I'm subclassing Thread and can't throw an Exception in
> the run method.  I suspect this is a more general issue though.
>

Not really.  Either modify the signature of the parent class, or throw a 
subclass of RuntimeException.  Easy-peasy.

Never throw RuntimeException directly; it'll mean nothing to you or 
anyone else reading a stack trace.  Always throw some subclass with a 
meaningful type.