Java In A Nutshell, 5th Edition

Signals an error in the binary format of a class file.

public class ClassFormatError extends LinkageError { // Public Constructors public ClassFormatError ( ); public ClassFormatError (String s ); }

Subclasses

UnsupportedClassVersionError , java.lang.reflect.GenericSignatureFormatError

Thrown By

ClassLoader.defineClass( )