How to Force Thread Dump in Eclipse?

Question

I\'m launching a Weblogic application inside Eclipse via the BEA Weblogic Server v9.2 runtime environment. If this were running straight from the command-line, I\'d do a ctr

Answer 1

You can connect through the JVisualVM and get a thread dump. Just right click on the application node from the Applications tree and select "Thread dump"

Answer 2

You can do it when you are in debug mode: go to the debug view in the debug perspective, click on the process you have launched and click on pause, you will get a graphical stack of all your processes.

Note : this also works when using remote debugging, you do not need to launch weblogic from eclipse, you can launch it on its own, open the debugging ports and create a "remote java application debug configuration" for it.

Answer 3

On linux at least you can do a ps -ef | grep java to get the PID and then do a kill -3 PID and it will output it to the Eclipse console.