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 ...

The pre-Java 1.4 solution was to manually parse an exception's stack trace. This tip shows how, with Java 1.4, you can trace that runtime code using Throwable's new getStackTrace() method. (1,500 ...