Java verbose class loading

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Bober02 picture Bober02 · Apr 19, 2012 · Viewed 86.3k times · Source

I am trying to list the order in which the Java class loader is loading my classes. if I use -verbose parameter it will list every single interface/class it loads, including tons of interfaces such as Serializable, exceptions etc. Is there a way to tweak this output so it only shows which classes are loaded in the class my main method is defined?

Answer

nwinkler picture nwinkler · Apr 19, 2012

I guess your best bet is to do the following:

  • Output some fixed text once your main method starts and right before it ends.
  • Pipe the verbose output into a file
  • Use things like less or grep to find the classes loaded between the two tags from the main method.

There's a similar question and some answers here: Is there a way to get which classes a ClassLoader has loaded?

Did you try -verbose:class?

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