Why does my JNI code not successfully find a jthrowable's getMessage method?

jthrowable java_exception;
jclass java_class;
jmethodID method;

java_exception = (*jEnv)->ExceptionOccurred(jEnv);
assert (java_exception != NULL);
java_class = (*jEnv)->GetObjectClass (jEnv, java_exception);
assert (java_class != NULL);
method = (*jEnv)->GetMethodID (jEnv, java_class, "getMessage", "()Ljava/lang/String;");
if (method == NULL) {
printf ("Seriously, how do I get here?!n");
(*jEnv)->ExceptionDescribe (jEnv);
return;
}

java_class = (*jEnv)->FindClass (jEnv, "java/lang/Throwable");
method = (*jEnv)->GetMethodID (jEnv, java_class, "getMessage", "()Ljava/lang/String;");

#include <cstdio>
#include <jni.h>

int
main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    if (argc != 3) {
        std::fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s class messagen", argv[0]);
        return 1;
    }

    JavaVM* jvm;
    void* penv;
    JavaVMInitArgs args = {JNI_VERSION_1_6};

    if (jint res = JNI_CreateJavaVM(&jvm, &penv, &args)) {
        std::fprintf(stderr, "Can's create JVM: %dn", res);
        return -res;
    }

    JNIEnv* env(static_cast<JNIEnv*>(penv));
    jint vers(env->GetVersion());
    std::printf("JNI version %d.%dn", vers >> 16, vers & 0xffff);

    env->ThrowNew(env->FindClass(argv[1]), argv[2]);
    jthrowable exc(env->ExceptionOccurred());
    std::printf("Exception: %pn", exc);
    if (exc) {
        jclass exccls(env->GetObjectClass(exc));
        jclass clscls(env->FindClass("java/lang/Class"));

        jmethodID getName(env->GetMethodID(clscls, "getName", "()Ljava/lang/String;"));
        jstring name(static_cast<jstring>(env->CallObjectMethod(exccls, getName)));
        char const* utfName(env->GetStringUTFChars(name, 0));

        jmethodID getMessage(env->GetMethodID(exccls, "getMessage", "()Ljava/lang/String;"));
        jstring message(static_cast<jstring>(env->CallObjectMethod(exc, getMessage)));
        char const* utfMessage(env->GetStringUTFChars(message, 0));

        std::printf("Exception: %s: %sn", utfName, utfMessage);
        env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(message, utfMessage);
        env->ReleaseStringUTFChars(name, utfName);
    }
    return -jvm->DestroyJavaVM();
}