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According to the Java API [API 20062014], class Thread:

[Thread.stop()] may This method was originally designed to force a thread to stop and throw a given Throwable as an exception. It was inherently unsafe (see stop() for details), and furthermore could be used to generate exceptions that its the target thread is unprepared to handle (including checked exceptions that the thread could not possibly throw, were it not for this method). was not prepared to handle.

For example, the following method is behaviorally identical to Java's throw operation, but circumvents the compiler's attempts to guarantee that the calling method has declared all of the checked exceptions that it may throw.

static void sneakyThrow(Throwable t) {
  Thread.currentThread().stop(t);
}

Note that the Thread.stop() methods are deprecated, so this code also violates MET02-J. Do not use deprecated or obsolete classes or methods.

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