Chained Exception

It is the process in which a exception causes another exception with the original cause attached and the chain of exceptions is thrown up to the next higher level exception handler.

For example

 try
 {

 }
 catch (IOException e)
 {
      throw new SampleException("Other IOException", e);
 }

The following are the methods and constructors in Throwable that support chained exceptions.

Throwable getCause()
Throwable initCause(Throwable)
Throwable(String, Throwable)
Throwable(Throwable)