Java - find the first cause of an exception

Question

I need to check if an exception is caused by some database problem. I receive an Exception and check if its cause contains the \"ORA\" string and return that (something like

Answer 1

you can use the getStackTrace() from the Throwable class. This would give you the stack of StackTraceElements to work with. You can iterate through the StackTraceElements[] to find "ORA" string.

Let me know if you need an example.