How can I get the current stack trace in Java?

Question

How do I get the current stack trace in Java, like how in .NET you can do Environment.StackTrace?

I found Thread.dumpStack() but it is not what I want -

Answer 1

To get the stack trace of all threads you can either use the jstack utility, JConsole or send a kill -quit signal (on a Posix operating system).

However, if you want to do this programmatically you could try using ThreadMXBean:

ThreadMXBean bean = ManagementFactory.getThreadMXBean();
ThreadInfo[] infos = bean.dumpAllThreads(true, true);

for (ThreadInfo info : infos) {
  StackTraceElement[] elems = info.getStackTrace();
  // Print out elements, etc.
}

As mentioned, if you only want the stack trace of the current thread it's a lot easier - Just use Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace();