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run() method and exceptions

Kev D'Arcy
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Probably a stupid question, but can a run method in a thread throw RuntimeExceptions that can be caught in the parent thread?
John Dale
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Not directly. Take a look at the uncaughtException(Thread, Throwable) method of ThreadGroup.
Peter Haggar
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Take a look at my article in the August 1998 issue of Java Report titled "Multithreaded Exception Handling in Java".
Peter Haggar

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