Java中UnsupportedOperationException理解

Java Collection接口中执行各种添加或移除的方法都是可选操作，即实现类并不需要为这些方法提供功能定义。
实现方法为在抽象类中定义这些可选方法并在方法体中抛出UnsupportedOperationException异常。如AbstractList的一些操作：

/**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * 
This implementation always throws an
     * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}.
     *
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws ClassCastException            {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws NullPointerException          {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException      {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException     {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public E set(int index, E element) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * 
This implementation always throws an
     * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}.
     *
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws ClassCastException            {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws NullPointerException          {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException      {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException     {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public void add(int index, E element) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *
     * 
This implementation always throws an
     * {@code UnsupportedOperationException}.
     *
     * @throws UnsupportedOperationException {@inheritDoc}
     * @throws IndexOutOfBoundsException     {@inheritDoc}
     */
    public E remove(int index) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException();
    }