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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.commons.lang3;
+
+/**
+ * Exception thrown when the Serialization process fails.
+ *
+ * <p>The original error is wrapped within this one.</p>
+ *
+ * <p>#NotThreadSafe# because Throwable is not thread-safe</p>
+ * @since 1.0
+ */
+public class SerializationException extends RuntimeException {
+
+    /**
+     * Required for serialization support.
+     *
+     * @see java.io.Serializable
+     */
+    private static final long serialVersionUID = 4029025366392702726L;
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new {@link SerializationException} without specified
+     * detail message.
+     */
+    public SerializationException() {
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new {@link SerializationException} with specified
+     * detail message.
+     *
+     * @param msg  The error message.
+     */
+    public SerializationException(final String msg) {
+        super(msg);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new {@link SerializationException} with specified
+     * nested {@link Throwable}.
+     *
+     * @param cause  The {@link Exception} or {@link Error}
+     *  that caused this exception to be thrown.
+     */
+    public SerializationException(final Throwable cause) {
+        super(cause);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Constructs a new {@link SerializationException} with specified
+     * detail message and nested {@link Throwable}.
+     *
+     * @param msg    The error message.
+     * @param cause  The {@link Exception} or {@link Error}
+     *  that caused this exception to be thrown.
+     */
+    public SerializationException(final String msg, final Throwable cause) {
+        super(msg, cause);
+    }
+
+}