How to obtain a description of a Java exception in C++ when using JNI?

Question

I would like to determine what exception has been thrown by a Java function when calling that function from C++ code using JNI. I have the following code that catches the Java

Answer 1

If you are just interested in the stack trace of the exception you can:

if (env->ExceptionOccurred()) // check if an exception occurred
{
    env->ExceptionDescribe(); // print the stack trace          
}