Divide by zero crash whole machine?

Question

hello
i have a little app that if i try to divide by zero, the whole machine crashes. its in a try/catch.. its part of a printing class for a tomcat application. but standalone tests showed that the same bit still causes the whole machine to crash.
any ideas? doesnt java have a whole try/catch around its applications that even if i dont catch it, it does... and usually give you a trace about it? and on top of that, then wouldn't win2000 also catch a top level java error even if it made it that far?

Answer 1

Its in a try/catch ...but what are you catching? Of course you can catch this error at runtime. Check out this example ...it catches the div by zero just fine. I don't understand why you can't control this in your program. Am I missing your point?
public class DivTest {
  public DivTest() { doit(); }
  public double doit() { return 8/0; }
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    try {
      new DivTest();
    } catch (Exception e) {
      System.out.println(e.toString());
}