Thanks Greg for the response. I know what the qualified name is and your example explains that. But, I still don't understand why will anyone try to use a qualified name as a parameter that way in the first place.
Well, someone might be tempted to use the Exception as a message passing mechanism. Multiple catch blocks might catch exceptions in the usual way, with a particular catch block for catching a particular predefined instance of an exception.
The second class doesn't compile under JDK 1.4, with the compiler complaining precisely at the "." delimiter in the qualified Exception parameter. It's not something I'd want to do, even if it were possible. But that's one way to visualize its use (or abuse) if not for �14.19. Thanks, Joe [This message has been edited by Cindy Glass (edited September 28, 2001).]