> > I think the conversation will shift a bit if you explain what you mean with: > > "// inspect the frames of that thread doing any needed business with them" > > What exactly do you have in mind? Do you want to change the stack in some > way?
I would like to inspect the variable's name/value on the stack at a specific point in time for diagnostic purposes, I don't want to change their value. I don't think that should be allowed anyway :-) > > Because, depending on what you want, Andrew's comment on: > ThreadMXBean.getThreadInfo(id).getStackTrace() ? > > > seems reasonable to me :) I had a look to the API's Javadoc, my understanding is that I could to get to the StackTraceElement array with it . That is OK to see the calls' stack but it does not provide any API to inspect what is actually on the stack in terms of variable's <name, value> pair. Did I miss anything ? Thanks, P.
