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For example, a method to play a movie file might handle exceptions in reading the file by re-throwing them inside an exception of movie playing. The user interface might display the time the error occurred extracted from the movie playing exception (<code>movieplayingexception.time</code>) and the name of the file extracted from the file reading exception (<code>movieplayingexception.cause.filename</code>).

Throwing the right kind of exceptions is particularly enforced by [[exception handling#Checked exceptions|checked exceptions]] in the [[Java (programming language)|Java programming language]], and starting with language version 1.4 all exceptions support chaining.

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