# Class NamingExceptionEvent

java.lang.Object
java.util.EventObject
javax.naming.event.NamingExceptionEvent

All Implemented Interfaces:
  `Serializable`

public class NamingExceptionEvent extends EventObject
This class represents an event fired when the procedures/processes used to collect information for notifying listeners of `NamingEvent`s threw a `NamingException`. This can happen, for example, if the server which the listener is using aborts subsequent to the `addNamingListener()` call.

Since:
  1.3
See Also:
  - `NamingListener.namingExceptionThrown(NamingExceptionEvent)`
  - `EventContext`
  - Serialized Form

## Field Summary

### Fields declared in class EventObject

`source`

## Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor
Description
`NamingExceptionEvent(EventContext source, NamingException exc)`
Constructs an instance of `NamingExceptionEvent` using the context in which the `NamingException` was thrown and the exception that was thrown.

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`void`
`dispatch(NamingListener listener)`
Invokes the `namingExceptionThrown()` method on a listener using this event.
`EventContext`
`getEventContext()`
Retrieves the `EventContext` that fired this event.
`NamingException`
`getException()`
Retrieves the exception that was thrown.

### Methods declared in class EventObject

`getSource, toString`

### Methods declared in class Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait`

## Constructor Details

### NamingExceptionEvent

public NamingExceptionEvent(EventContext source, NamingException exc)
Constructs an instance of `NamingExceptionEvent` using the context in which the `NamingException` was thrown and the exception that was thrown.

Parameters:
  `source` - The non-null context in which the exception was thrown.
  `exc` - The non-null `NamingException` that was thrown.

## Method Details

### getException

public NamingException getException()
Retrieves the exception that was thrown.

Returns:
  The exception that was thrown.

### getEventContext

public EventContext getEventContext()
Retrieves the `EventContext` that fired this event. This returns the same object as `EventObject.getSource()`.

Returns:
  The non-null `EventContext` that fired this event.

### dispatch

public void dispatch(NamingListener listener)
Invokes the `namingExceptionThrown()` method on a listener using this event.

Parameters:
  `listener` - The non-null naming listener on which to invoke the method.