[jboss-as7-dev] How to report exception cause in AS7 consoles?

Hi, I am working on a messaging issue[1] to add more contextual info when reporting messaging failure on CLI operations. In this case, a JMS queue can not been added because the user specified an invalid filter. We throw a StartException with a cause Throwable (corresponding to the invalid filter parsing) but the CLI console displays only the StartException's message 'failed to create queue' and not its cause. I have several ways to fix the issue and I am not sure which one is the more appropriate for AS7: 1) I can fix the code in the messaging subsystem to append the cause's localized message to the StartException message every time I throw one 2) In the controller code, when I report the StartException to the user, I append the cause's l10ned message (if there is a cause) to StartException.toString() message (this impacts all thrown StartException, not only those from messaging subsystem) 3) I update StartException.toString() to append the cause message I prefer (3) since as it is the only place where I would have to deal with this but I don't realize the whole implication. More generally, are there guidelines for reporting errors in AS7 CLI & Web consoles? Are stacktraces acceptable? Is it up to every subsystems to "prettify" their exceptions to provide all info in the message? thanks, jeff [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-1735 -- Jeff Mesnil JBoss, a division of Red Hat http://jmesnil.net/