Name: atR10191			Date: 05/30/2003


method public Throwable initCause(Throwable cause) of class Throwable
always throws IllegalStateException being called on the
java.rmi.RemoteException instance.

See the example below.

============ Test172.java ==============================================
import java.rmi.RemoteException;

public class Test172 {

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        RemoteException re = new RemoteException("java");
        Throwable ex = re.initCause(null);
 
        System.out.println("initCause(null) returned " + ex);
        System.exit(0);
    }
}
======== end of Test172.java ==========================================
======== output of Test172 ============================================
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: Can't overwrite caus
e
        at java.lang.Throwable.initCause(Throwable.java:320)
        at Test172.main(Test172.java:8)
======== end of output of Test172 =====================================
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