The Thread class has another method related to the process of uncaught exceptions. It's the static method setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler() that establishes an exception handler for all the thread objects in the application.
When an uncaught exception is thrown in the thread, the JVM looks for three possible handlers for this exception.
First it looks for the uncaught exception handler of the thread objects, as we learned in this recipe. If this handler doesn't exist, the JVM looks for the uncaught exception handler of ThreadGroup as explained in the Grouping threads and processing uncontrolled exceptions in a group of threads recipe. If this method doesn't exist, the JVM looks for the default uncaught exception handler, ...
