of these classes in pre-1.4 JVMs. Without this, an InvocationTargetException could be thrown when calling the constructor but that could also be caused by a number of other reasons which we don't want to ignore. git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/logging/trunk@179529 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68