Is there a way to dump a stack trace without throwing an exception in java?

Question

I am thinking of creating a debug tool for my Java application.

I am wondering if it is possible to get a stack trace, just like Exception.printStackTrace()

Answer 1

The answer by Rob Di Marco is by far the best if you are happy to output to stderr.

If you want to capture to a String, with new lines as per a normal trace, you could do this:

Arrays.toString(Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()).replace( ',', '\n' );