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055: package org.jicarilla.lang;
056:
057: /**
058: * <p>Class from which all exceptions should inherit. Allows recording of
059: * nested exceptions in a pre-jdk-1.4 environment.</p>
060: *
061: * <p>This class originally came from the Apache Avalon server framework at <a
062: * href="http://avalon.apache.org/">http://avalon.apache.org/</a>. It has been
063: * included here so that a dependency on avalon-framework.jar is not neccessary
064: * in Jicarilla's core.</p>
065: *
066: * @author <a href="mailto:dev@avalon.apache.org">Avalon Development Team</a>
067: * @version $Id: CascadingException.java,v 1.4 2003/12/16 21:20:05 lsimons Exp
068: * $
069: */
070: public class CascadingException extends Exception implements
071: CascadingThrowable {
072: /** The Throwable that caused this exception to be thrown. */
073: protected final Throwable m_throwable;
074:
075: /**
076: * Construct a new <code>CascadingException</code> instance.
077: */
078: public CascadingException() {
079: super ();
080: m_throwable = null;
081: }
082:
083: /**
084: * Construct a new <code>CascadingException</code> instance.
085: *
086: * @param throwable the root cause of the exception.
087: */
088: public CascadingException(final Throwable throwable) {
089: super ();
090: m_throwable = throwable;
091: }
092:
093: /**
094: * Construct a new <code>CascadingException</code> instance.
095: *
096: * @param message the detail message for this exception.
097: */
098: public CascadingException(final String message) {
099: this (message, null);
100: }
101:
102: /**
103: * Construct a new <code>CascadingException</code> instance.
104: *
105: * @param message the detail message for this exception.
106: * @param throwable the root cause of the exception.
107: */
108: public CascadingException(final String message,
109: final Throwable throwable) {
110: super (message);
111: m_throwable = throwable;
112: }
113:
114: /**
115: * Retrieve root cause of the exception.
116: *
117: * @return the root cause for this exception.
118: */
119: public final Throwable getCause() {
120: if (m_throwable != null)
121: return m_throwable;
122: else
123: return super.getCause();
124: }
125: }
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