Martin Cooper wrote: >Well, everything extends Object, Eddie! ;-) > Not directly, we hope :-)
>(Sorry, I couldn't resist that.) > Yea, I'm glad someone had a good laugh out of it ;-) Obviously that little heirarchy up there shouldn't be taken entirely literally ... >The JavaDocs on the web site have the correct scoop: > >http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/lang/api/org/apache/commons/lang/exception >/NestableRuntimeException.html > >and this is from the JavaDocs for RuntimeException: > >"A method is not required to declare in its throws clause any subclasses of >RuntimeException that might be thrown during the execution of the method but >not caught." > I skipped that and went to RuntimeException - the root of that leg. Same info. Obviously I didn't get smart enough to look there til after my post. So these guys are like "compiler warnings" at runtime? ... I never liked warnings. I'm one of the anal idiots that always set compiles to break on them unless there was something beyond my control I *had* to "live with". They're more than "suggestions" dad-gummit! <emote:slapKnee/> *ouch* I prefer things that make you catch them :-/ >-- >Martin Cooper > -- Eddie Bush -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>