com.interface21.core
Interface HasRootCause

All Known Implementing Classes:

ErrorCodedPropertyVetoException, NestedCheckedException, NestedRuntimeException

public interface HasRootCause

Interface to be implemented by exceptions that have a root cause. This enables exceptions that don't share a common superclass to expose a root cause consistently. This will no longer be necessary in Java 1.4, although it won't be incompatible.

Version:

$Id: HasRootCause.java,v 1.1.1.1 2003/02/11 08:10:18 johnsonr Exp $

Author:

Rod Johnson

Method Summary

java.lang.Throwable

getRootCause() Return the root cause of this exception

Method Detail

getRootCause

public java.lang.Throwable getRootCause()

Return the root cause of this exception

Returns:

the root cause of this exception, or null if there was no root cause