001 /* MBeanException.java -- A user-defined management exception. 002 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004 This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006 GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009 any later version. 010 011 GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014 General Public License for more details. 015 016 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017 along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 019 02110-1301 USA. 020 021 Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022 making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023 conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024 combination. 025 026 As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027 permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028 executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029 modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030 terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031 independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032 module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033 or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034 this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035 obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036 exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 package javax.management; 039 040 /** 041 * Represents an arbitrary exception thrown by a management 042 * bean. When a management bean executes code that causes 043 * an exception to be thrown, the resulting exception is 044 * wrapped inside an {@link MBeanException}. Calling 045 * {@link getTargetException()} will return the wrapped 046 * exception. 047 * 048 * @author Andrew John Hughes (gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org) 049 * @since 1.5 050 */ 051 public class MBeanException 052 extends JMException 053 { 054 055 /** 056 * Compatible with JDK 1.5 057 */ 058 private static final long serialVersionUID = 4066342430588744142L; 059 060 /* Sun re-implemented causality -- don't know why, but 061 serialization demands we do too... */ 062 063 /** 064 * The target exception. 065 * 066 * @serial the target exception. 067 */ 068 private Exception exception; 069 070 /** 071 * Constructs a new <code>MBeanException</code> wrapping 072 * the specified exception. 073 * 074 * @param e the exception to be wrapped. 075 */ 076 public MBeanException(Exception e) 077 { 078 super(); 079 exception = e; 080 } 081 082 /** 083 * Constructs a new <code>MBeanException</code> wrapping 084 * the specified exception and using the supplied message. 085 * 086 * @param e the exception to be wrapped. 087 * @param message the error message to give to the user. 088 */ 089 public MBeanException(Exception e, String message) 090 { 091 super(message); 092 exception = e; 093 } 094 095 /** 096 * Returns the true cause of this exception, the wrapped 097 * exception. 098 * 099 * @return the wrapped exception. 100 */ 101 public Throwable getCause() 102 { 103 return exception; 104 } 105 106 /** 107 * Returns the true cause of this exception, the wrapped 108 * exception. 109 * 110 * @return the wrapped exception. 111 */ 112 public Exception getTargetException() 113 { 114 return exception; 115 } 116 117 } 118