How do I create a thread dump via JMX?

Question

I have a Tomcat running as a Windows Service, and those are known not to work well with jstack. jconsole is working well, on the other hand, and I can see stacks of individu

Answer 1

Here's another code sample that will write a stack dump to a file:

http://pastebin.com/zwcKC0hz

We use this over JMX to give us an approximation of the stack dump you get when you make a JMX request or if the process detects high, unexpected load.