Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition

Name

ThreadDeath

Synopsis

Signals that a thread should terminate. This error is thrown in a thread when the Thread.stop( ) method is called for that thread. This is an unusual Error type that simply causes a thread to be terminated, but does not print an error message or cause the interpreter to exit. You can catch ThreadDeath errors to do any necessary cleanup for a thread, but if you do, you must rethrow the error so that the thread actually terminates.

Figure 10-64. java.lang.ThreadDeath

public class ThreadDeath extends Error {
// Public Constructors
     public ThreadDeath( );  
}