How do I pipe the Java console output to a file?

Question

I found a bug in an application that completely freezes the JVM. The produced stacktrace would provide valuable information for the developers and I would like to retrieve i

Answer 1

Actually one can activate tracing in the Java Control Panel. This will pipe anything that ends up in the Java console in a tracing file.

The log files will end up in:

• /.java/deployment/log on Unix/Linux
• \Sun\Java\Deployment\log on Windows
• /~/Library/Caches/Java/log on OS X