Retrofitting exception link mechanism of JAXBException

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Since JAXB 2.0 is going to require J2SE 5.0, we should take this opportunity to
retrofit JAXBException's exception chaining mechanism into that of JDK 1.4.

Today, JAXBException has its own mechanism to link to another (wrapped) exception,
and it has its own code to print the information about this linked exception
in its printStackTrace method.

Starting from JDK 1.4, java.lang.Throwable has this exact feature. We can take
advantage of this by tweaking JAXBException.

The change would allow the stack trace to be printed in the same way as the rest
of exceptions. The printing method in JDK is also smarter than the one in
JAXBException.

When making this change, we have to be careful not to break the compatibility.
Fortunately, many of the core JDK exceptions
(such as java.lang.InvocationTargetException) went through this retrofitting
process, so we know how to do it right.

Environment

Operating System: All
Platform: All

Affected Versions

[2.0 v0.4]

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Reported by kohsuke

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Was assigned to kohsuke

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kohsuke said:
I forgot to mention that JAXBException is missing serialVersionUID, and
we should put that in.

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kohsuke said:
Committed changes.

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kohsuke said:
changed to FIXED.

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kohsuke said:
Created an attachment (id=3)
Proposed diff. I incorrectly attached this to issue #39.

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File: diff
Attached By: kohsuke

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Marked as fixed on Monday, July 31st 2006, 10:15:55 am

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This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JSR222-41