21  * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
  22  * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
  23  * questions.
  24  */
  25 
  26 package java.lang.reflect;
  27 
  28 /**
  29  * InvocationTargetException is a checked exception that wraps
  30  * an exception thrown by an invoked method or constructor.
  31  *
  32  * <p>As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to
  33  * the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism.  The "target exception"
  34  * that is provided at construction time and accessed via the
  35  * {@link #getTargetException()} method is now known as the <i>cause</i>,
  36  * and may be accessed via the {@link Throwable#getCause()} method,
  37  * as well as the aforementioned "legacy method."
  38  *
  39  * @see Method
  40  * @see Constructor

  41  */
  42 public class InvocationTargetException extends ReflectiveOperationException {
  43     /**
  44      * Use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.1.X for interoperability
  45      */
  46     private static final long serialVersionUID = 4085088731926701167L;
  47 
  48      /**
  49      * This field holds the target if the
  50      * InvocationTargetException(Throwable target) constructor was
  51      * used to instantiate the object
  52      *
  53      * @serial
  54      *
  55      */
  56     private Throwable target;
  57 
  58     /**
  59      * Constructs an {@code InvocationTargetException} with
  60      * {@code null} as the target exception.

  21  * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
  22  * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
  23  * questions.
  24  */
  25 
  26 package java.lang.reflect;
  27 
  28 /**
  29  * InvocationTargetException is a checked exception that wraps
  30  * an exception thrown by an invoked method or constructor.
  31  *
  32  * <p>As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to
  33  * the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism.  The "target exception"
  34  * that is provided at construction time and accessed via the
  35  * {@link #getTargetException()} method is now known as the <i>cause</i>,
  36  * and may be accessed via the {@link Throwable#getCause()} method,
  37  * as well as the aforementioned "legacy method."
  38  *
  39  * @see Method
  40  * @see Constructor
  41  * @since 1.1
  42  */
  43 public class InvocationTargetException extends ReflectiveOperationException {
  44     /**
  45      * Use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.1.X for interoperability
  46      */
  47     private static final long serialVersionUID = 4085088731926701167L;
  48 
  49      /**
  50      * This field holds the target if the
  51      * InvocationTargetException(Throwable target) constructor was
  52      * used to instantiate the object
  53      *
  54      * @serial
  55      *
  56      */
  57     private Throwable target;
  58 
  59     /**
  60      * Constructs an {@code InvocationTargetException} with
  61      * {@code null} as the target exception.