Exception problem

[Rippon Jalali]

Can anybody tell me why this program is giving compiler error.
In my opinion it should run fine as first Test11() constructior will b called the implicit call to super which is valid too.

public class Test11 extends A{
Test11()throws Exception{
System.out.println("Test10 Class");
}
Test11(int i){}
public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception{
Test11 t = new Test11();
}
}
class A{
A() throws Exception{
System.out.println("A Class");
}
}

[Joanne Neal]

The only error I get is that the Test11 constructor that takes an int should be declared to throw an exception, which is what I would expect as the parent class constructor that it implicitly calls is declared to throw an Exception.
[ January 05, 2007: Message edited by: Joanne Neal ]

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

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[Rippon Jalali]

Thank you Neal But i am not using that constructor any where in my code .So what is the need of that..

[Henry Wong]

Originally posted by Rippon Jalali:
Thank you Neal But i am not using that constructor any where in my code .So what is the need of that..

The compiler is *not* that smart. If you have a constructor that have a compile error, it is an error condition. It will not allow you to have errors in it just because you are not using it.

Henry

[Rippon Jalali]

i got it. thanks henry and Neal