question about throwing exceptions

hi,

i am trying to throw a FileNotFoundException in a certain situation, but Eclipse is giving me the 'unhandled FileNotFoundException' error and insisting I wrap the 'throw' statement in a try/catch statement.

Is that right? is it just a bug in eclipse or does this exception insist i catch the very exception i am trying to throw?

thanks!

[370 byte] By [pnandrusa] at [2007-10-2 21:05:23]

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# 1

You can throw it, but you have to declare that your method throws it.

void myMethod() throws FNFExc {

throw new FNFExc("Me no findey");

}

jverda at 2007-7-13 23:50:41 >

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# 2

If you want to throw an exception you have to say that you're throwing an exception :-)This is so that classes using this method know what to expect.

Norweeda at 2007-7-13 23:50:41 >

# 3

duh,yeah, i knew that! i am SO lame! =)i just kinda..you know... forgot!

pnandrusa at 2007-7-13 23:50:41 >

# 4

throw new StuffForgottenException ();

BIJ001a at 2007-7-13 23:50:41 >

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