Glorified classes in the Java language

Question

Some classes in the standard Java API are treated slightly different from other classes. I\'m talking about those classes that couldn\'t be implemented without special support f

Answer 1

Well since the special handling of assert has been mentioned. Here are some more Exception types which have special treatment by the jvm:

• NullPointerException
• ArithmeticException.
• StackOverflowException
• All kinds of OutOfMemoryErrors
• ...

The exceptions are not special, but the jvm uses them in special cases, so you can't implement them yourself without writing your own jvm. I'm sure that there are more special exceptions around.