Java Reference
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Table 9-1
Commonly Used Methods Defined by
Throwable
Of the methods defined by
Throwable
, two of the most interesting are
printStack-
Trace( )
and
toString( )
. You can display the standard error message plus a record of the
method calls that lead up to the exception by calling
printStackTrace( )
. You can use
toString( )
to retrieve the standard error message. The
toString( )
method is also called
when an exception is used as an argument to
println( )
. The following program demon-
strates these methods: