Hi, I am not positive that this is the answer, but I have experienced a similar thing. I was actually getting a tcl.lang.ReflectObject back and had to use something like: set exception [lindex $errorCode 1] [$exception get] printStackTrace Hope this helps. Dan Munk ---------------------------------------------------------------- The TclJava mailing list is sponsored by Scriptics Corporation. To subscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word SUBSCRIBE as the subject. To unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE as the subject. To send to the list, send email to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. An archive is available at http://www.mail-archive.com/tcljava@scriptics.com