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

If you're debugging in eclipse, you can pause the application (select the app in the debug view and the little || button on the debug toolbar) and then it can report deadlocks.

See http://runnerwhocodes.blogspot.com/2007/10/deadlock-detection-with-eclipse.html for an example.