001/* SecurityException.java -- thrown to indicate a security violation 002 Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package java.lang; 040 041/** 042 * The security manager will throw this exception to indicate a security 043 * violation. This can occur any time an operation is attempted which is 044 * deemed unsafe by the current security policies. 045 * 046 * @author Brian Jones 047 * @author Warren Levy (warrenl@cygnus.com) 048 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 049 * @see SecurityManager 050 * @status updated to 1.5 051 */ 052public class SecurityException extends RuntimeException 053{ 054 /** 055 * Compatible with JDK 1.0+. 056 */ 057 private static final long serialVersionUID = 6878364983674394167L; 058 059 /** 060 * Create an exception without a message. 061 */ 062 public SecurityException() 063 { 064 } 065 066 /** 067 * Create an exception with a message. 068 * 069 * @param s the message 070 */ 071 public SecurityException(String s) 072 { 073 super(s); 074 } 075 076 /** 077 * <p> 078 * Constructs a <code>SecurityException</code> using 079 * the specified error message, which should give further details 080 * as to the reason for this exception. The specified cause 081 * <code>Throwable</code> may be used to provide additional history, 082 * with regards to the root of the problem. It is perfectly valid 083 * for this to be null, if the cause of the problem is unknown. 084 * </p> 085 * <p> 086 * <strong>Note</strong>: the detail message from the cause is not 087 * automatically incorporated into the resulting detail message of 088 * this exception. 089 * </p> 090 * 091 * @param message the detail message, which should give the reason for 092 * this exception being thrown. 093 * @param cause the cause of this exception, or null if the cause 094 * is unknown. 095 * @since 1.5 096 */ 097 public SecurityException(String message, Throwable cause) 098 { 099 super(message, cause); 100 } 101 102 /** 103 * <p> 104 * Constructs a <code>SecurityException</code> using 105 * the specified cause <code>Throwable</code>, which may be used 106 * to provide additional history, with regards to the root of the 107 * problem. It is perfectly valid for this to be null, if the 108 * cause of the problem is unknown. 109 * </p> 110 * <p> 111 * The detail message is automatically constructed from the detail 112 * message of the supplied causal exception. If the cause is null, 113 * then the detail message will also be null. Otherwise, the detail 114 * message of this exception will be that of the causal exception. 115 * This makes this constructor very useful for simply wrapping another 116 * exception. 117 * </p> 118 * 119 * @param cause the cause of this exception, or null if the cause 120 * is unknown. 121 * @since 1.5 122 */ 123 public SecurityException(Throwable cause) 124 { 125 super(cause); 126 } 127 128}