Deadlock detection in Java

Question

Long time ago, I saved a sentence from a Java reference book: \"Java has no mechanism to handle deadlock. it won\'t even know deadlock occurred.\" (Head First Java 2nd E

Answer 1

Not exactly what you asked, but when a deadlock does occur, you can do a "kill -3" on the process id and it dumps a thread dump to stdout. Also, the 1.6 jvm has some tools to do the same thing in a gui manner.