Why doesn’t Java allow generic subclasses of Throwable?

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As mark said, the types are not reifiable, which is a problem in the following case:

try {
   doSomeStuff();
} catch (SomeException<Integer> e) {
   // ignore that
} catch (SomeException<String> e) {
   crashAndBurn()
}

Both SomeException<Integer> and SomeException<String> are erased to the same type, there is no way for the JVM to distinguish the exception instances, and therefore no way to tell which catch block should be executed.

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