Re: Throwable vs. Exception...

It probably didn't hang up.  Instead, the thread that produced the
NoClassDefFoundError and failed to handle it was terminated by the JVM.
Other threads were still running.

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> Subject: [JAVA] Throwable vs. Exception...
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>
> I had a program that threw a NoClassDefFoundError and my
> try,catch block was catching Exception instead of Throwable.
>
> I noticed that the program just kind of hung in the main
> method.  When I caught Throwable instead the program
> terminated normally after catching the java.lang.Error.
>
> Where & why did the program hang up before?
>
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