How to throw RuntimeException (“cannot find symbol”)

Question

I\'m trying to throw an exception in my code like this:

throw RuntimeException(msg);

But when I build in NetBeans I get this error:

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Answer 1

you will have to instantiate it before you throw it

throw new RuntimeException(arg0) 

PS: Intrestingly enough the Netbeans IDE should have already pointed out that compile time error