Juergen Hoeller opened SPR-14424 and commented

As of 4.3, @ExceptionHandler matches against cause types as well (#18863). We missed to revise @MessageExceptionHandler the same way; let's close that gap for 4.3.1.

Affects: 4.3 GA

Issue Links:

• @ExceptionHandler should match cause as well (e.g. for exception thrown from argument formatter) [SPR-14291] #18863 @ExceptionHandler should match cause as well (e.g. for exception thrown from argument formatter)
• AbstractMethodMessageHandler does not rethrow Errors [SPR-16912] #21451 AbstractMethodMessageHandler does not rethrow Errors

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