# Uses of Class
java.lang.Error

Packages that use Error
Package
Description
java.awt
Contains all of the classes for creating user interfaces and for painting graphics and images.
java.io
Provides for system input and output through data streams, serialization and the file system.
java.lang
Provides classes that are fundamental to the design of the Java programming language.
java.lang.annotation
Provides library support for the Java programming language annotation facility.
java.lang.reflect
Provides classes and interfaces for obtaining reflective information about classes and objects.
java.nio.charset
Defines charsets, decoders, and encoders, for translating between bytes and Unicode characters.
java.rmi
Provides the RMI package.
java.util
Contains the collections framework, some internationalization support classes, a service loader, properties, random number generation, string parsing and scanning classes, base64 encoding and decoding, a bit array, and several miscellaneous utility classes.
java.util.zip
Provides classes for reading and writing the standard ZIP and GZIP file formats.
javax.management
Provides the core classes for the Java Management Extensions.
javax.management.remote
Interfaces for remote access to JMX MBean servers.
javax.xml.parsers
Provides the classes for processing XML documents with a SAX (Simple API for XML) parser or a DOM (Document Object Model) Document builder.
javax.xml.stream
Defines interfaces and classes for the Streaming API for XML (StAX).
javax.xml.transform
Defines the generic APIs for processing transformation instructions, and performing a transformation from source to result.
javax.xml.validation
Provides an API for validation of XML documents.

## Uses of Error in java.awt

Subclasses of Error in java.awt
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`AWTError`
Thrown when a serious Abstract Window Toolkit error has occurred.

## Uses of Error in java.io

Subclasses of Error in java.io
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`IOError`
Thrown when a serious I/O error has occurred.

## Uses of Error in java.lang

Subclasses of Error in java.lang
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`AbstractMethodError`
Thrown when an application tries to call an abstract method.
`class`
`AssertionError`
Thrown to indicate that an assertion has failed.
`class`
`BootstrapMethodError`
Thrown to indicate that an `invokedynamic` instruction or a dynamic constant failed to resolve its bootstrap method and arguments, or for `invokedynamic` instruction the bootstrap method has failed to provide a call site with a target of the correct method type, or for a dynamic constant the bootstrap method has failed to provide a constant value of the required type.
`class`
`ClassCircularityError`
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine detects a circularity in the superclass hierarchy of a class being loaded.
`class`
`ClassFormatError`
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class file and determines that the file is malformed or otherwise cannot be interpreted as a class file.
`class`
`ExceptionInInitializerError`
Signals that an unexpected exception has occurred in a static initializer.
`class`
`IllegalAccessError`
Thrown if an application attempts to access or modify a field, or to call a method that it does not have access to.
`class`
`IncompatibleClassChangeError`
Thrown when an incompatible class change has occurred to some class definition.
`class`
`InstantiationError`
Thrown when an application tries to use the Java `new` construct to instantiate an abstract class or an interface.
`class`
`InternalError`
Thrown to indicate some unexpected internal error has occurred in the Java Virtual Machine.
`class`
`LinkageError`
Subclasses of `LinkageError` indicate that a class has some dependency on another class; however, the latter class has incompatibly changed after the compilation of the former class.
`class`
`NoClassDefFoundError`
Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine or a `ClassLoader` instance tries to load in the definition of a class (as part of a normal method call or as part of creating a new instance using the `new` expression) and no definition of the class could be found.
`class`
`NoSuchFieldError`
Thrown if an application tries to access or modify a specified field of an object, and that object no longer has that field.
`class`
`NoSuchMethodError`
Thrown if an application tries to call a specified method of a class (either static or instance), and that class no longer has a definition of that method.
`class`
`OutOfMemoryError`
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine cannot allocate an object because it is out of memory, and no more memory could be made available by the garbage collector.
`class`
`StackOverflowError`
Thrown when a stack overflow occurs because an application recurses too deeply.
`class`
`ThreadDeath`
Deprecated, for removal: This API element is subject to removal in a future version.
`Thread.stop()` was originally specified to "stop" a victim thread by causing the victim thread to throw a `ThreadDeath`.
`class`
`UnknownError`
Thrown when an unknown but serious exception has occurred in the Java Virtual Machine.
`class`
`UnsatisfiedLinkError`
Thrown if the Java Virtual Machine cannot find an appropriate native-language definition of a method declared `native`.
`class`
`UnsupportedClassVersionError`
Thrown when the Java Virtual Machine attempts to read a class file and determines that the major and minor version numbers in the file are not supported.
`class`
`VerifyError`
Thrown when the "verifier" detects that a class file, though well formed, contains some sort of internal inconsistency or security problem.
`class`
`VirtualMachineError`
Thrown to indicate that the Java Virtual Machine is broken or has run out of resources necessary for it to continue operating.

## Uses of Error in java.lang.annotation

Subclasses of Error in java.lang.annotation
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`AnnotationFormatError`
Thrown when the annotation parser attempts to read an annotation from a class file and determines that the annotation is malformed.

## Uses of Error in java.lang.reflect

Subclasses of Error in java.lang.reflect
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`GenericSignatureFormatError`
Thrown when a syntactically malformed signature attribute is encountered by a reflective method that needs to interpret the generic signature information for a class or interface, method or constructor.

## Uses of Error in java.nio.charset

Subclasses of Error in java.nio.charset
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`CoderMalfunctionError`
Error thrown when the `decodeLoop` method of a `CharsetDecoder`, or the `encodeLoop` method of a `CharsetEncoder`, throws an unexpected exception.

## Uses of Error in java.rmi

Constructors in java.rmi with parameters of type Error
Modifier
Constructor
Description
``
`ServerError(String s, Error err)`
Constructs a `ServerError` with the specified detail message and nested error.

## Uses of Error in java.util

Subclasses of Error in java.util
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`ServiceConfigurationError`
Error thrown when something goes wrong while locating, loading, or instantiating a service provider.

## Uses of Error in java.util.zip

Subclasses of Error in java.util.zip
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`ZipError`
Deprecated, for removal: This API element is subject to removal in a future version.
ZipError is no longer used and is obsolete.

## Uses of Error in javax.management

Methods in javax.management that return Error
Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`Error`
RuntimeErrorException.`getTargetError()`
Returns the actual `Error` thrown.
Constructors in javax.management with parameters of type Error
Modifier
Constructor
Description
``
`RuntimeErrorException(Error e)`
Default constructor.
``
`RuntimeErrorException(Error e, String message)`
Constructor that allows a specific error message to be specified.

## Uses of Error in javax.management.remote

Constructors in javax.management.remote with parameters of type Error
Modifier
Constructor
Description
``
`JMXServerErrorException(String s, Error err)`
Constructs a `JMXServerErrorException` with the specified detail message and nested error.

## Uses of Error in javax.xml.parsers

Subclasses of Error in javax.xml.parsers
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`FactoryConfigurationError`
Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Parser Factories exists.

## Uses of Error in javax.xml.stream

Subclasses of Error in javax.xml.stream
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`FactoryConfigurationError`
An error class for reporting factory configuration errors.

## Uses of Error in javax.xml.transform

Subclasses of Error in javax.xml.transform
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`class`
`TransformerFactoryConfigurationError`
Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Transformer Factories exists.

## Uses of Error in javax.xml.validation

Subclasses of Error in javax.xml.validation
Modifier and Type
Class
Description
`final class`
`SchemaFactoryConfigurationError`
Thrown when a problem with configuration with the Schema Factories exists.