Exception treated differently

[Ransika deSilva]

Hello all,
This is about Threads. The wait(), notify(), and notifyAll() method should be included inside a synchronized block/method and in try block. My question is why does it give a runtime error only when the catchint exception is 'InterruptedException'. I tried with catch block like this,
catch(Exception e) but this doesn't give a run time error. Could you please explain this for me.
Thank you very much
public class A extends Thread{
public static void main(String ar[]) {
A a = new A();
a.start();

}
public void run() {
for (int x = 0 ;x<2;x++) {

System.out.println("H");
try {
wait();
notify();
}catch(InterruptedException e ) {} // If it is Exception , it doesn't // give runtime exception
}

}
}

[Ana Abrantes]

InterruptedException is a subclass of Exception.

[Narasimha Rao B.]

Hi Ransika,
Here point is, when you call wait(), notify() or notifyAll() methods from ourside of syncronized methods/blocks, compiler will throw IllegalMonitorStateException, and this exception is subclass of Exception and not checked exception.Hence,
1. When you call these methods outside the synchronized block/method, you are not getting the compile time error(Bec, IllegalMonitorStateException is not checked exception).
2. IllegalMonitorStateException is not subclass of InterruptedException, so you can't catch IllegalMonitorStateException with catch(InterruptedException) method.
3. When you use, catch(Exception e), you can very well catch the exception, IllegalMonitorStateException and can proceede with normal execution.
Hope it calrifies your doubts,
Thanks.