The Javadoc documentation describes how simple it is to use this method: Returns a string containing the result of toString (), followed by the full, recursive stack trace of throwable.

In the past, Java lacked the simple ability to map runtime code back to its position in the source code file. The pre-Java 1.4 solution was to manually parse an exception's stack trace.

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