diff -r 5198affdb915 -r d382dacfd73f rt/emul/compact/src/main/java/java/io/WriteAbortedException.java
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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 1996, 2005, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+package java.io;
+
+/**
+ * Signals that one of the ObjectStreamExceptions was thrown during a
+ * write operation.  Thrown during a read operation when one of the
+ * ObjectStreamExceptions was thrown during a write operation.  The
+ * exception that terminated the write can be found in the detail
+ * field. The stream is reset to it's initial state and all references
+ * to objects already deserialized are discarded.
+ *
+ * <p>As of release 1.4, this exception has been retrofitted to conform to
+ * the general purpose exception-chaining mechanism.  The "exception causing
+ * the abort" that is 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."
+ *
+ * @author  unascribed
+ * @since   JDK1.1
+ */
+public class WriteAbortedException extends ObjectStreamException {
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = -3326426625597282442L;
+
+    /**
+     * Exception that was caught while writing the ObjectStream.
+     *
+     * <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 Exception detail;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a WriteAbortedException with a string describing
+     * the exception and the exception causing the abort.
+     * @param s   String describing the exception.
+     * @param ex  Exception causing the abort.
+     */
+    public WriteAbortedException(String s, Exception ex) {
+        super(s);
+        initCause(null);  // Disallow subsequent initCause
+        detail = ex;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Produce the message and include the message from the nested
+     * exception, if there is one.
+     */
+    public String getMessage() {
+        if (detail == null)
+            return super.getMessage();
+        else
+            return super.getMessage() + "; " + detail.toString();
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the exception that terminated the operation (the <i>cause</i>).
+     *
+     * @return  the exception that terminated the operation (the <i>cause</i>),
+     *          which may be null.
+     * @since   1.4
+     */
+    public Throwable getCause() {
+        return detail;
+    }
+}