Throwable

[John Rose]

On Aug 19, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Raffaello Giulietti wrote:

> Fortunately, the JVM doesn't know about checked exceptions. Let's hope
> this will remain so even in the future.

The Java language checks exceptions statically.  The JVM doesn't.   
Neither of these facts will change in the foreseeable future.  The  
design choices you see in JSR 292 language support are simply  
preserving that aspect of the status quo.

-- John