>>>>> "David" == David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: David> Well maybe some of those, but why not just catch those documented in David> Class.newInstance() and Class.forName()? Namely add LinkageError and David> ExceptionInInitializerError. Or maybe Exceptions in general but no David> Errors others than those explicitly documented. The problem is that Class.forName() doesn't wrap exceptions in ExceptionInInitializerError, it just propagates whatever the underlying constructor throws. This is a bug in the spec (or the original implementation) but we're stuck with it. Tom
