JavaTM 2 Platform
Std. Ed. v1.4.2

java.security
Class GeneralSecurityException

java.lang.Object
  extended byjava.lang.Throwable
      extended byjava.lang.Exception
          extended byjava.security.GeneralSecurityException
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable
Direct Known Subclasses:
BadPaddingException, CertificateException, CertPathBuilderException, CertPathValidatorException, CertStoreException, CRLException, DigestException, ExemptionMechanismException, IllegalBlockSizeException, InvalidAlgorithmParameterException, InvalidKeySpecException, InvalidParameterSpecException, KeyException, KeyStoreException, LoginException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchPaddingException, NoSuchProviderException, ShortBufferException, SignatureException, UnrecoverableKeyException

public class GeneralSecurityException
extends Exception

The GeneralSecurityException class is a generic security exception class that provides type safety for all the security-related exception classes that extend from it.

See Also:
Serialized Form

Constructor Summary
GeneralSecurityException()
          Constructs a GeneralSecurityException with no detail message.
GeneralSecurityException(String msg)
          Constructs a GeneralSecurityException with the specified detail message.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Throwable
fillInStackTrace, getCause, getLocalizedMessage, getMessage, getStackTrace, initCause, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, printStackTrace, setStackTrace, toString
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

GeneralSecurityException

public GeneralSecurityException()
Constructs a GeneralSecurityException with no detail message.


GeneralSecurityException

public GeneralSecurityException(String msg)
Constructs a GeneralSecurityException with the specified detail message. A detail message is a String that describes this particular exception.

Parameters:
msg - the detail message.

JavaTM 2 Platform
Std. Ed. v1.4.2

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