why cant we overload a method with same return type, name, arguments but with some throws exception? as shown
public String getAppletInfo(){ }
public String getAppletInfo() throws Exception{ }
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When you call
getAppletInfo()in code, how do you want the JVM to choose which overload to call? There is no semantic information in a single method call that allows you to specify which exceptions it should expect.