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Based on the message, what kind of failure is this?

 
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I made a mistake on purpose to see what the compiler would throw at me. In this case, I omit the variable that's called inside a method:



and in the main class


and I got


I'm using eclipse and surprisingly, only the T class that has those little red x mark at tryMe method pointing that I made a mistake there. But the code in Main.java is clean. No red x mark anywhere. ut then after "Run as Java Application", I get the failure (which I'm expecting). Now, Is this an Error (because of java.lang.Error) or exception (because the failure text also mentioned "Exception in thread..."). If exception, is it runtime or checked? Or is it just a compile error and none of the failure type I mentioned before? thanks
 
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Hi John,

Did you run this code after declaring public String name(line 5 - class T) as a comment //?
If you are it's a compile error because syntax error at line 5 in class T. Then remove // on line 5 in class T and try to run.
 
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Hard to say. When I try to compile Main.java my compiler says:
 
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Michael, did you remove // in class T?
 
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Udara Amarasinghe wrote:
Michael, did you remove // in class T?


I did. Does not make any difference to the compiler; maybe it contributes to an IDE bug, but a comment shouldn't affect the IDE runtime verifier either.
 
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Different error message? this is unexpected. Did you run from console using java command? I run this from eclipse.
@Udara: so it's compile error as in Error type? not exception? I'm still a bit confused.
 
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I did run it from a console, as I figured the error you received must have something to do with how the IDE editor and verifier are interacting.
 
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John Batista wrote:Different error message? this is unexpected. Did you run from console using java command? I run this from eclipse.
@Udara: so it's compile error as in Error type? not exception? I'm still a bit confused.


In here compiler errors means just errors that appears in the comply time because of inappropriate syntax, try to comply not java files or mistakes like that...

But there is runtime errors that throws by JVM when found unrecoverable errors. And they are derived from java.lang.Error class.
And Exceptions are thrown by the program. Programs can recover from those. And they are derived from java.lang.Exception class.

these tutorial will helps you tutorial.

Michael Ernest wrote:I did run it from a console, as I figured the error you received must have something to do with how the IDE editor and verifier are interacting.


I didn't try it with eclipse IDE. So perhaps.
 
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so, how do one predict what kind of failure a code will give? Is it possible to predict that it's gonna be compile error or exception (and if exception, will it be checked or unchecked)? or do I have to memorize these? because there are exam questions that will ask about the result of an execution block. thanks
 
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Hi, Ranch

Its exception of type java.lang.RuntimeException

while compiling compiler try to look for the variable "name" which you are printing. It cannot find the variable name becoz you have commented (for testing i suppose). It throws a runtime exception. its not a forced exception........ But its a compilation error only

look what result i got when i run it in the NetBeans

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code
 
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Hi, Ranch

Its exception of type java.lang.RuntimeException

while compiling compiler try to look for the variable "name" which you are printing. It cannot find the variable name becoz you have commented (for testing i suppose). It throws a runtime exception. its not a forced exception........ But its a compilation error only

look what result i got when i run it in the NetBeans

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Uncompilable source code

try to write both classes in same file
 
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John Batista wrote:so, how do one predict what kind of failure a code will give? Is it possible to predict that it's gonna be compile error or exception (and if exception, will it be checked or unchecked)? or do I have to memorize these? because there are exam questions that will ask about the result of an execution block. thanks


Yes you have to keep them in memory. But it's very easy thing because if you can keep basic theories of the java language than definitely you will be able to determine what going on in this code and whether it makes errors or not. I suggest you to do more particles and try to understand and keep in memory those basic theories.

vinayak jog wrote:Its exception of type java.lang.RuntimeException


Vinayak, that runtime exception appears because you run this code in NetBeans. It's a IDE side runtime exception. If you compile this code as the default way(using javac command on a command prompt) without a IDE. You will get compilation failure without any thrown exception types of java.lang.Exception or Error types of java.lang.Error.
 
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