Bug 133538

First: The only reason why I marked this issue as a "defect" is because this behavior used to be different on version
5.5.1 and as such I suspect it to be a bug.

When extending a class which constructor throws an Exception you will get an error message (bulb) if the extending
class' constructor does not report the throwing of the exception. When pressing alt-enter you'll get an error telling
you "unreported exception <exception>; must be caught or declared to be thrown" (where <exception> is of course the
thrown exception). Previously this also presented an auto-fix to declare the exception ("Add throws clause").

So, testcase:

public class superclass {
  public superclass() throws Exception {
    throw new Exception("Testing purposes!");
  }
}

public class testclass extends superclass {
  public testclass() {      // The error bulb will appear here
  }
}


Note that as soon as you add "super();" to the constructor of the testclass things will once again behave as expected;
now the error appears on the line which contains "super();" and it will present the option to add the throws clause for you.

This behavior doesn't change with the addition of modules; I have tested it on a pristine 6.1rc2 SE installation with
and without extra modules.