diff --git a/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/http/HttpException.java b/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/http/HttpException.java
index d000edd5d..b266151ee 100644
--- a/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/http/HttpException.java
+++ b/src/main/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/http/HttpException.java
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
  * JNI bindings to the AWS Common Runtime
  */
 public class HttpException extends RuntimeException {
-    private int errorCode;
+    private final int errorCode;
 
     /**
      * Constructs a new HttpException
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ public HttpException(int errorCode) {
     }
 
     /**
-     * Returns the error code captured when the exception occurred. This can be fed to {@link CRT.awsErrorString} to
+     * Returns the error code captured when the exception occurred. This can be fed to CRT.awsErrorString() to
      * get a user-friendly error string
      * @return The error code associated with this exception
      */
-    int getErrorCode() {
+    public int getErrorCode() {
         return errorCode;
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/test/S3ClientTest.java b/src/test/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/test/S3ClientTest.java
index fb29820e9..9bc1c216d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/test/S3ClientTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/software/amazon/awssdk/crt/test/S3ClientTest.java
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ public void benchmarkS3Get() {
         // resolution
         final int vipsNeeded = (int) Math.ceil(expectedGbps / 0.5 / 10);
         final int sampleDelay = Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty("aws.crt.s3.benchmark.warmup",
-                new Integer((int) Math.ceil(vipsNeeded / 5)).toString()));
+                Integer.toString((int) Math.ceil(vipsNeeded / 5))));
         System.out.println(String.format("REGION=%s, WARMUP=%s", region, sampleDelay));
 
         // Ignore stats during warm up time, they skew results
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ public void benchmarkS3Put() {
         // resolution
         final int vipsNeeded = (int) Math.ceil(expectedGbps / 0.5 / 10);
         final int sampleDelay = Integer.parseInt(System.getProperty("aws.crt.s3.benchmark.warmup",
-                new Integer((int) Math.ceil(vipsNeeded / 5)).toString()));
+                Integer.toString((int) Math.ceil(vipsNeeded / 5))));
         System.out.println(String.format("REGION=%s, WARMUP=%s", region, sampleDelay));
 
         // Ignore stats during warm up time, they skew results