Print the stack trace of an exception

Question

How do I print the stack trace of an exception to a stream other than stderr? One way I found is to use getStackTrace() and print the entire list to the stream.

Answer 1

Not beautiful, but a solution nonetheless:

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter( writer );
exception.printStackTrace( printWriter );
printWriter.flush();

String stackTrace = writer.toString();