| Package | Description | 
|---|---|
| java.awt | 
 Contains all of the classes for creating user
interfaces and for painting graphics and images. 
 | 
| java.io | 
 Provides for system input and output through data streams,
serialization and the file system. 
 | 
| java.lang | 
 Provides classes that are fundamental to the design of the Java
 programming language. 
 | 
| java.lang.annotation | 
 Provides library support for the Java programming language
 annotation facility. 
 | 
| java.lang.reflect | 
 Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective
 information about classes and objects. 
 | 
| java.nio.charset | 
 Defines charsets, decoders, and encoders, for translating between bytes and
Unicode characters. 
 | 
| java.rmi | 
 Provides the RMI package. 
 | 
| java.util | 
 Contains the collections framework, legacy collection classes, event model,
date and time facilities, internationalization, and miscellaneous utility
classes (a string tokenizer, a random-number generator, and a bit array). 
 | 
| java.util.zip | 
 Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP
file formats. 
 | 
| javax.management | 
 Provides the core classes for the Java Management Extensions. 
 | 
| javax.management.remote | 
 Interfaces for remote access to
        JMX MBean servers. 
 | 
| javax.xml.parsers | 
 
                Provides classes allowing the processing of XML documents. 
 | 
| javax.xml.transform | 
 This package defines the generic APIs for processing transformation
instructions, and performing a transformation from source to result. 
 | 
| javax.xml.validation | 
 
                    This package provides an API for validation of XML documents. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
AWTError
Thrown when a serious Abstract Window Toolkit error has occurred. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
IOError
Thrown when a serious I/O error has occurred. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
AbstractMethodError
Thrown when an application tries to call an abstract method. 
 | 
class  | 
AssertionError
Thrown to indicate that an assertion has failed. 
 | 
class  | 
BootstrapMethodError
Thrown to indicate that an  
invokedynamic instruction has
 failed to find its bootstrap method,
 or the bootstrap method has failed to provide a
 call site with a target
 of the correct method type. | 
class  | 
ClassCircularityError
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine detects a circularity in the
 superclass hierarchy of a class being loaded. 
 | 
class  | 
ClassFormatError
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class
 file and determines that the file is malformed or otherwise cannot
 be interpreted as a class file. 
 | 
class  | 
ExceptionInInitializerError
Signals that an unexpected exception has occurred in a static initializer. 
 | 
class  | 
IllegalAccessError
Thrown if an application attempts to access or modify a field, or
 to call a method that it does not have access to. 
 | 
class  | 
IncompatibleClassChangeError
Thrown when an incompatible class change has occurred to some class
 definition. 
 | 
class  | 
InstantiationError
Thrown when an application tries to use the Java  
new
 construct to instantiate an abstract class or an interface. | 
class  | 
InternalError
Thrown to indicate some unexpected internal error has occurred in
 the Java Virtual Machine. 
 | 
class  | 
LinkageError
Subclasses of  
LinkageError indicate that a class has
 some dependency on another class; however, the latter class has
 incompatibly changed after the compilation of the former class. | 
class  | 
NoClassDefFoundError
Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine or a  
ClassLoader instance
 tries to load in the definition of a class (as part of a normal method call
 or as part of creating a new instance using the new expression)
 and no definition of the class could be found. | 
class  | 
NoSuchFieldError
Thrown if an application tries to access or modify a specified
 field of an object, and that object no longer has that field. 
 | 
class  | 
NoSuchMethodError
Thrown if an application tries to call a specified method of a
 class (either static or instance), and that class no longer has a
 definition of that method. 
 | 
class  | 
OutOfMemoryError
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine cannot allocate an object
 because it is out of memory, and no more memory could be made
 available by the garbage collector. 
 | 
class  | 
StackOverflowError
Thrown when a stack overflow occurs because an application
 recurses too deeply. 
 | 
class  | 
ThreadDeath
An instance of  
ThreadDeath is thrown in the victim thread
 when the (deprecated) Thread.stop() method is invoked. | 
class  | 
UnknownError
Thrown when an unknown but serious exception has occurred in the
 Java Virtual Machine. 
 | 
class  | 
UnsatisfiedLinkError
Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine cannot find an appropriate
 native-language definition of a method declared  
native. | 
class  | 
UnsupportedClassVersionError
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class
 file and determines that the major and minor version numbers
 in the file are not supported. 
 | 
class  | 
VerifyError
Thrown when the "verifier" detects that a class file,
 though well formed, contains some sort of internal inconsistency
 or security problem. 
 | 
class  | 
VirtualMachineError
Thrown to indicate that the Java Virtual Machine is broken or has
 run out of resources necessary for it to continue operating. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
AnnotationFormatError
Thrown when the annotation parser attempts to read an annotation
 from a class file and determines that the annotation is malformed. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
GenericSignatureFormatError
Thrown when a syntactically malformed signature attribute is
 encountered by a reflective method that needs to interpret the
 generic signature information for a type, method or constructor. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
CoderMalfunctionError
Error thrown when the  
decodeLoop method of
 a CharsetDecoder, or the encodeLoop method of a CharsetEncoder, throws an unexpected
 exception. | 
| Constructor and Description | 
|---|
ServerError(String s,
           Error err)
Constructs a  
ServerError with the specified
 detail message and nested error. | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
ServiceConfigurationError
Error thrown when something goes wrong while loading a service provider. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
ZipError
Signals that an unrecoverable error has occurred. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description | 
|---|---|
Error | 
RuntimeErrorException.getTargetError()
Returns the actual  
Error thrown. | 
| Constructor and Description | 
|---|
RuntimeErrorException(Error e)
Default constructor. 
 | 
RuntimeErrorException(Error e,
                     String message)
Constructor that allows a specific error message to be specified. 
 | 
| Constructor and Description | 
|---|
JMXServerErrorException(String s,
                       Error err)
Constructs a  
JMXServerErrorException with the specified
 detail message and nested error. | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
FactoryConfigurationError
Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Parser Factories
 exists. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
TransformerFactoryConfigurationError
Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Transformer Factories
 exists. 
 | 
| Modifier and Type | Class and Description | 
|---|---|
class  | 
SchemaFactoryConfigurationError
Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Schema Factories
 exists. 
 | 
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