Try / Catch confusion

[Dirk Lombard]

Hi

I am working on code a contractor wrote and saw the following:

static Class _mthclass$(String x0)
{
return Class.forName(x0);
ClassNotFoundException x1;
x1;
throw (new NoClassDefFoundError()).initCause(x1);
}

I would thinks that it should look like this:

static Class _mthclass$(String x0)
{
try
{
return Class.forName(x0);
}
catch(ClassNotFoundException x1)
{
throw new NoClassDefFoundError(x1.getMessage());
}
}

Is the first set of code A way to handle exceptions in Java 5 or is it just something that I have been missing all this time?

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

The contractor code simply won't compile, for quite a few reasons. Maybe the "contractor's code" is actually code decompiled by a decompiler that couldn't quite do the job? This happens sometimes, that decompilers leave some stuff unfinished.

One thing that the contractor code does (or tries to do) differently is to use the ClassNotFoundException as the cause of the NoClassDefFoundError . The correct thing to do in your code would be "throw new NoClassDefFoundError(x1)" .

[Dirk Lombard]

Thanks for the reply. That cleared things up for me. I thought I was loosing it there for a moment.