Question

Give a simple reference to a Throwable object. I want to just find out what the original class where this was thrown. I no longer am inside this class so all I have is a Throwable object that was passed in from somewhere.

Answer 1

Use the GetStackTrace property of Throwable to retreive getClassName().

http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/StackTraceElement.html

for (StackTraceElement ste : myThrowableObject.getStackTrace())
{
    System.out.println(ste.getClassName());
}

This will print all classes involved.