The new JDK 7 feature supporting handling of multiple exceptions with a single catch block might also be used in this situation, but I like this general reflection operation exception approach.

Everyone who codes Java EE web applications needs to pay attention to exception handling. When a program encounters an error, developers can display friendly messages for end users, which ...

For example, Throwables.getRootCause (Throwable) returns the exception that is often most important (see Tips #2 and #3 in Ten Tips for Using Java Stack Traces) in a chain (the “innermost” or ...