/*
 * JBoss, Home of Professional Open Source.
 * Copyright 2006, Red Hat Middleware LLC, and individual contributors
 * as indicated by the @author tags. See the copyright.txt file in the
 * distribution for a full listing of individual contributors.
 *
 * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
 * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
 * the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free
 * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org.
 */
package org.jboss.resource.adapter.jdbc;

import java.sql.SQLException;

/**
 * The ExceptionSorter interface allows for <code>java.sql.SQLException</code>
 * evaluation to determine if an error is fatal. 
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:d_jencks@users.sourceforge.net">David Jencks</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:adrian@jboss.com">Adrian Brock</a>
 * @author <a href="mailto:weston.price@jboss.com>Weston Price</a>
 * 
 * @see ValidConnectionChecker
 * @see CheckValidConnectionSQL
 *  
 * @version $Revision: 71554 $
 */

public interface ExceptionSorter
{
   
   
   /**
    * Evaluates a <code>java.sql.SQLException</code> to determine if
    * the error was fatal
    * 
    * @param e the <code>java.sql.SQLException</code>
    * 
    * @return whether or not the exception is vatal.
    */
   boolean isExceptionFatal(SQLException e);
}
