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package java.rmi.activation;

General exception used by the activation interfaces.
As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism. The "detail exception" that may be provided at construction time and accessed via the public detail field is now known as the cause, and may be accessed via the Throwable.getCause() method, as well as the aforementioned "legacy field." 
Invoking the method Throwable.initCause(Throwable) on an instance of ActivationException always throws IllegalStateException. 
Author:
     Ann Wollrath
Since:
      1.2/**
 * General exception used by the activation interfaces.
 *
 * <p>As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to
 * the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism.  The "detail exception"
 * that may be provided at construction time and accessed via the public
 * {@link #detail} field is now known as the <i>cause</i>, and may be
 * accessed via the {@link Throwable#getCause()} method, as well as
 * the aforementioned "legacy field."
 *
 * <p>Invoking the method {@link Throwable#initCause(Throwable)} on an
 * instance of <code>ActivationException</code> always throws {@link
 * IllegalStateException}.
 *
 * @author      Ann Wollrath
 * @since       1.2
 */
public class ActivationException extends Exception {

    
The cause of the activation exception.
This field predates the general-purpose exception chaining facility. The Throwable.getCause() method is now the preferred means of obtaining this information. 
@serial
/**
     * The cause of the activation exception.
     *
     * <p>This field predates the general-purpose exception chaining facility.
     * The {@link Throwable#getCause()} method is now the preferred means of
     * obtaining this information.
     *
     * @serial
     */
    public Throwable detail;

    
indicate compatibility with the Java 2 SDK v1.2 version of class /** indicate compatibility with the Java 2 SDK v1.2 version of class */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -4320118837291406071L;

    
Constructs an ActivationException.
/**
     * Constructs an <code>ActivationException</code>.
     */
    public ActivationException() {
        initCause(null);  // Disallow subsequent initCause
    }

    
Constructs an ActivationException with the specified
detail message.
Params:
s – the detail message/**
     * Constructs an <code>ActivationException</code> with the specified
     * detail message.
     *
     * @param s the detail message
     */
    public ActivationException(String s) {
        super(s);
        initCause(null);  // Disallow subsequent initCause
    }

    
Constructs an ActivationException with the specified detail message and cause. This constructor sets the detail field to the specified Throwable.
Params:
s – the detail message
cause – the cause/**
     * Constructs an <code>ActivationException</code> with the specified
     * detail message and cause.  This constructor sets the {@link #detail}
     * field to the specified <code>Throwable</code>.
     *
     * @param s the detail message
     * @param cause the cause
     */
    public ActivationException(String s, Throwable cause) {
        super(s);
        initCause(null);  // Disallow subsequent initCause
        detail = cause;
    }

    
Returns the detail message, including the message from the cause, if
any, of this exception.
Returns:
 the detail message/**
     * Returns the detail message, including the message from the cause, if
     * any, of this exception.
     *
     * @return  the detail message
     */
    public String getMessage() {
        if (detail == null)
            return super.getMessage();
        else
            return super.getMessage() +
                "; nested exception is: \n\t" +
                detail.toString();
    }

    
Returns the cause of this exception. This method returns the value of the detail field. 
Returns:
 the cause, which may be null.
Since:
  1.4/**
     * Returns the cause of this exception.  This method returns the value
     * of the {@link #detail} field.
     *
     * @return  the cause, which may be <tt>null</tt>.
     * @since   1.4
     */
    public Throwable getCause() {
        return detail;
    }
}