What is a suppressed exception?

Question

A comment (by user soc) on an answer to a question about tail call optimisation mentioned that Java 7 has a new feature called \"suppressed exceptions\", because of \"the ad

Answer 1

I think this has to do with the "chained exception facility". It will affect how an exception is handled by this facility as the stack trace evolves. Over time exceptions that are part of a group of chained exception can be suppressed. Look at the Throwable documentation for more details.