© Kishori Sharan 2017

Kishori Sharan, Java 9 Revealed, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2592-9_16

16. Stack Walking

Kishori Sharan1 

(1)Montgomery, Alabama, USA

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • What stacks and stack frames are

  • How to traverse a thread’s stack before JDK 9

  • How to traverse a thread’s stack in JDK 9 using the StackWalker API

  • How to get the caller’s class in JDK 9

What Is a Stack ?

Each thread in a JVM has a private JVM stack that is created at the same time the thread is created. The stack is a List-In-First-Out (LIFO) data structure. A stack stores frames. A new frame is created and pushed to the top of the stack each time a method is invoked. A frame is destroyed (popped out of stack) when the method invocation completes. Each frame on a stack contains ...

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