A common solution when encountering exceptions is the "ugly" printstacktrace()
in order to get enough information printed to fully understand the reason the exception occured.
Such stacktraces seldom do well in logs, and by
java 1.4 there is a new method on Throwable which seems to make it easier to extract information from the exception/stacktrace...
However applications can be run on VM prior to 1.4, so this solution is not suitable...
My question ::
Does anyone know of some open source project or equivalent which deals with the problem of extracting information from exceptions, making it possible to make more reasonable logstatements than the damn printStackTrace()??