Throwable#initCause(Throwable) 方法

代码:

//首先有个变量case
private Throwable cause = this;

 public synchronized Throwable initCause(Throwable cause) {
        // 保证只能调用一次
        if (this.cause != this)
            throw new IllegalStateException("Can't overwrite cause");
        // 不能设置自身
        if (cause == this)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Self-causation not permitted");
        this.cause = cause;
        return this;
    }
作用:
将cause设置为当前类的默认cause值,保存此 cause，以便以后通过 getCause() 方法获取它。
在spring中的应用参考DefaultDocumentLoader.java 中createDocumentBuilderFactory的代码/**
	 * Create the {@link DocumentBuilderFactory} instance.
	 * @param validationMode the type of validation: {@link XmlValidationModeDetector#VALIDATION_DTD DTD}
	 * or {@link XmlValidationModeDetector#VALIDATION_XSD XSD})
	 * @param namespaceAware whether the returned factory is to provide support for XML namespaces
	 * @return the JAXP DocumentBuilderFactory
	 * @throws ParserConfigurationException if we failed to build a proper DocumentBuilderFactory
	 */
	protected DocumentBuilderFactory createDocumentBuilderFactory(int validationMode, boolean namespaceAware)
			throws ParserConfigurationException {


		DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
		factory.setNamespaceAware(namespaceAware);


		if (validationMode != XmlValidationModeDetector.VALIDATION_NONE) {
			factory.setValidating(true);


			if (validationMode == XmlValidationModeDetector.VALIDATION_XSD) {
				// Enforce namespace aware for XSD...
				factory.setNamespaceAware(true);
				try {
					factory.setAttribute(SCHEMA_LANGUAGE_ATTRIBUTE, XSD_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE);
				}
				catch (IllegalArgumentException ex) {
					ParserConfigurationException pcex = new ParserConfigurationException(
							"Unable to validate using XSD: Your JAXP provider [" + factory +
							"] does not support XML Schema. Are you running on Java 1.4 with Apache Crimson? " +
							"Upgrade to Apache Xerces (or Java 1.5) for full XSD support.");
					pcex.initCause(ex);
					throw pcex;
				}
			}
		}


		return factory;
	}