When an exception is thrown by a method that is executing under several layers of method calls, a stack trace indicates the method executing when an exception occurred and all of the methods that were called in order to execute that method.

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A stack trace provides a list of method calls from the point where the exception was thrown all the way back to the start of the thread, showing the method that was executing at the time of the exception and each method call that led up to it.

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