Looking for directions about compiling and tracing OpenJDK

[Ira Abramov]

Quoting Amos Shapira, from the post of Tue, 09 Oct:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an idea which involves going somewhat deep into the bowls of the
> Java Jar class loader when using the official Oracle JDK 6 (and soon 7).
> To verify this I started looking at the JDK source code but it's not small
> and I'd like to try to trace through it while it executes Java programs.
> 
> Does anyone here have experience in doing something like this and can give
> me some useful pointers on how to do this?
> 
> I'd like to be able to do "gdb java -jar HelloWorld.jar" and single-step
> through the class loader while it loads HelloWorld.jar.

My humble opinion - gdb will catch way too much crap. Is it so low in
the stack that you can't provision it with JMX and trace it through
that?


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