Call trace in java

Question

Is there a way to output a call trace for a particular thread in java?

I do not want a stack trace. I would like a sequence of calls on each object for tracing.

Answer 1

If you want to trace the execution of your Java code you can use a tool called InTrace.

NOTE: InTrace is a free and open source tool which I have written.

Answer 2

Runtime.traceMethodCalls(), which prints a line for each method call of all objects in all threads

Answer 3

There is btrace, that can be used for this kind of action.

Answer 4

The more easier way than Btrace is using HouseMD, you can get the from here

Answer 5

I think you might find this interesting. It is a java agent which adds entry and exit logging to methods, using the slf4j framework to actually log the output. Then it is a matter of configuring the logging framework to only print out that thread you are interested in.

http://www.slf4j.org/extensions.html#javaagent

(just to be explicit: 1) I wrote it, 2) it works for me :) )

Answer 6

We could create a new Throwable object which will have the call trace. And using some string manipulations, we can get the call stack.

Throwable t = new Throwable();
System.out.println(t.getStackTrace()[1].toString());

I'm not sure retrieving the info this way , is a good practice or not. :)