How to Force Thread Dump in Eclipse?

Paul Croarkin picture Paul Croarkin · Oct 28, 2008 · Viewed 30.4k times · Source

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 ctrl-BREAK to force a thread dump. Is there a way to do it in Eclipse?

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PhiLho picture PhiLho · Oct 28, 2008

Indeed (thanks VonC to point to the SO thread), Dustin, in a comment to his message, points to jstack.

I have run a little Java application (with GUI) in Eclipse, I can see the related javaw.exe in Windows' process manager and its PID, 7088 (it is even simpler in Unix, of course).

If I type at a command prompt jstack 7088, I have the wanted stack dump per thread.
Cool.

Would be better if we could do that directly from Eclipse, but that's already useful as is.