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This plug-in contains the bulk of the Workbench implementation, and depends on JFace, SWT, and Core Runtime. It cannot be used independently from org.eclipse.ui. Workbench client plug-ins should not depend directly on this plug-in.

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/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2000, 2005 IBM Corporation and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ui.contexts;

/**
 * Signals that an exception occured within the context architecture.
 * 
 * This class is not intended to be extended by clients.
 * 
 * 
 * @since 3.0
 * @deprecated Please use the "org.eclipse.core.commands" plug-in instead.
 * @see org.eclipse.core.commands.common.CommandException
 */
public abstract class ContextException extends Exception {
	
	private Throwable cause;

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of this class with the specified detail message.
     * 
     * @param message
     *            the detail message.
     */
    public ContextException(String message) {
        super(message);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of this class with the specified detail message
     * and cause.
     * 
     * @param message
     *            the detail message.
     * @param cause
     *            the cause.
     */
    public ContextException(String message, Throwable cause) {
        super(message);
        // don't pass the cause to super, to allow compilation against JCL Foundation
        this.cause = cause;
    }
    
    /**
     * Returns the cause of this throwable or null if the
     * cause is nonexistent or unknown. 
     *
     * @return the cause or null
     * @since 3.1
     */
    public Throwable getCause() {
        return cause;
    }

}