/* * Copyright 1997-2006 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. * * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as * published by the Free Software Foundation. Sun designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. * * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that * accompanied this code). * * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. * * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or * have any questions. */ package java.util; /** * This exception may be thrown by methods that have detected concurrent * modification of an object when such modification is not permissible. *
* For example, it is not generally permissible for one thread to modify a Collection * while another thread is iterating over it. In general, the results of the * iteration are undefined under these circumstances. Some Iterator * implementations (including those of all the general purpose collection implementations * provided by the JRE) may choose to throw this exception if this behavior is * detected. Iterators that do this are known as fail-fast iterators, * as they fail quickly and cleanly, rather that risking arbitrary, * non-deterministic behavior at an undetermined time in the future. *
* Note that this exception does not always indicate that an object has * been concurrently modified by a different thread. If a single * thread issues a sequence of method invocations that violates the * contract of an object, the object may throw this exception. For * example, if a thread modifies a collection directly while it is * iterating over the collection with a fail-fast iterator, the iterator * will throw this exception. * *
Note that fail-fast behavior cannot be guaranteed as it is, generally * speaking, impossible to make any hard guarantees in the presence of * unsynchronized concurrent modification. Fail-fast operations * throw ConcurrentModificationException on a best-effort basis. * Therefore, it would be wrong to write a program that depended on this * exception for its correctness: ConcurrentModificationException * should be used only to detect bugs. * * @author Josh Bloch * @see Collection * @see Iterator * @see ListIterator * @see Vector * @see LinkedList * @see HashSet * @see Hashtable * @see TreeMap * @see AbstractList * @since 1.2 */ public class ConcurrentModificationException extends RuntimeException { /** * Constructs a ConcurrentModificationException with no * detail message. */ public ConcurrentModificationException() { } /** * Constructs a ConcurrentModificationException with the * specified detail message. * * @param message the detail message pertaining to this exception. */ public ConcurrentModificationException(String message) { super(message); } }