001/* GeneralSecurityException.java -- Common superclass of security exceptions 002 Copyright (C) 1998, 2002, 2005, 2006 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 038package java.security; 039 040/** 041 * This class is the common superclass of all security exceptions. All 042 * exceptions in java.security extend this class with the exception (no 043 * pun intended) of <code>AccessControlException</code> and 044 * <code>CertificateException</code> (which extend 045 * <code>SecurityException</code>), <code>ProviderException</code> 046 * (<code>RuntimeException</code>), and <code>InvalidParamterException</code> 047 * (<code>IllegalArgumentException</code>). 048 * 049 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) 050 * @status updated to 1.4 051 */ 052public class GeneralSecurityException extends Exception 053{ 054 /** 055 * Compatible with JDK 1.1+. 056 */ 057 private static final long serialVersionUID = 894798122053539237L; 058 059 /** 060 * Create a new instance with no descriptive error message. 061 */ 062 public GeneralSecurityException() 063 { 064 } 065 066 /** 067 * Create a new instance with a descriptive error message. 068 * 069 * @param msg the descriptive error message 070 */ 071 public GeneralSecurityException(String msg) 072 { 073 super(msg); 074 } 075 076 /** 077 * Create a new instance with a descriptive error message and 078 * a cause. 079 * @param s the descriptive error message 080 * @param cause the cause 081 * @since 1.5 082 */ 083 public GeneralSecurityException(String s, Throwable cause) 084 { 085 super(s, cause); 086 } 087 088 /** 089 * Create a new instance with a cause. 090 * @param cause the cause 091 * @since 1.5 092 */ 093 public GeneralSecurityException(Throwable cause) 094 { 095 super(cause); 096 } 097}