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I dont understand logistics of wrapping any exception into a ServletException. Doesnt it violate polymorphism rules?
How can the SQLException be wrapped into a ServletException when both are subclasses of Exception class?
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You will find that the relationship is "has-a", not "is-a" in this case. The ServletException "has-a" SQLException wrapped up in a payload to be delivered by the ServletException when it is caught.
 
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Got it.
The word 'wrapping' confused me, i guess.
We pass SQLException object to a Throwable reference in ServletException constructor and getRootcause() just returns tht passed object.
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