>>>>> "David" == David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: David> The documentation (jdk 1.4.2) of Class.newInstance() says that David> InstantiationException is thrown if "... if the instantiation fails David> for some other reason." In my book throwing an exception falls under David> the catagory of "some other reason" Read the 1.5 docs. They are explicit about passing through checked exceptions here. Though the docs still manage to be internally inconsistent; it looks like someone forgot to update an @throws. There's no question that this is a historical error. It does violate the JLS, which is bad, and is dumb in other ways too. But Sun's options for fixing this were pretty limited. Sometimes it really does make sense to just document a mistake and move on. Tom
