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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2008 Wind River Systems, Inc. and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ * Martin Oberhuber (Wind River) - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+package org.eclipse.rse.services.clientserver.messages;
+
+import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
+
+/**
+ * Exception thrown when the cause for a problem can not be determined.
+ * 
+ * This class should be used rarely, because it's always better to tell users as
+ * explicitly as possible what went wrong. It's usually used as a temporary
+ * workaround while the time for finding a proper error message is not
+ * available.
+ * 
+ * @since 3.0
+ */
+public class SystemUnexpectedErrorException extends SystemMessageException {
+
+	/**
+	 * A serialVersionUID is recommended for all serializable classes. This
+	 * trait is inherited from Throwable. This should be updated if there is a
+	 * schema change for this class.
+	 */
+	private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+	/**
+	 * Default Constructor.
+	 *
+	 * @param pluginId ID of the plugin in which the unexpected error was
+	 * 		cought.
+	 */
+	public SystemUnexpectedErrorException(String pluginId) {
+		super(getMyMessage(pluginId));
+	}
+
+	private static SystemMessage getMyMessage(String pluginId) {
+		return new SimpleSystemMessage(pluginId, ICommonMessageIds.MSG_ERROR_UNEXPECTED, IStatus.ERROR, CommonMessages.MSG_ERROR_UNEXPECTED);
+	}
+
+}