EJ-61 Exception Chaining: Throw Exceptions Appropriate to the Abstraction

Ref: Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

It is disconcerting when a method throws an exception that has no appropriate connection to the task that it performs. Higher layers should catch lower-level exceptions and in their place, throw exceptions that can be explained in terms of the higher-level abstraction. This idiom is known as exception translation:



 A special form of exception translation called exception chaining is appropriate in cases where the lower-level exception might be helpful to someone debugging the problem that caused the higher-level exception.