JDK 1.1 API Changes to the Throwable Class

The JDK 1.1 release added many features to make it easy for programmers to develop internationalized programs. Some changes were required to the Throwable class to make it a better international citizen. In fact, all of the changes made to the Throwable class are related to internationalization issues.

New Methods

These methods were added to the Throwable class for the JDK 1.1.

String getLocalizedMessage()
printStackTrace(PrintWriter)