Thrown when an application tries to load in a class through its
string name using:
The forName method in class Class.
The findSystemClass method in class
ClassLoader .
The loadClass method in class ClassLoader.
but no definition for the class with the specified name could be found.
As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to
the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism. The "optional exception
that was raised while loading the class" that may be provided at
construction time and accessed via the getException() method is
now known as the cause, and may be accessed via the getCause() method, as well as the aforementioned "legacy method."
forNamemethod in classClass.findSystemClassmethod in classClassLoader.loadClassmethod in classClassLoader.but no definition for the class with the specified name could be found.
As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism. The "optional exception that was raised while loading the class" that may be provided at construction time and accessed via the getException() method is now known as the cause, and may be accessed via the getCause() method, as well as the aforementioned "legacy method."