This page describes all problems, tasks and solution approaches regarding tracing of method invocations in the same thread.
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How to access information about the current method in a reliable way?
- How to associate a called method with it's caller?
- How to collect and filter the invocation information without much overhead on the target application and network?
- Can the amount of data form from the agent be reduced? Can it be aggregated?
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Currently the sequence sensor is implemented as a container, which collects all sensor data (e.g. from timer sensors) starting from an defined start point (execution of a predefined method).
This collected data is chronologically ordered, to allow to trace the invocation sequence.
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This is not suitable for asynchronous methods. @Stefan and Patrice: Am i right here?
(Also see continues sending in IS advanced notes for better understanding)
New approaches /
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idea
Idea:
On each hook, the Id of the currentThread would be acquired. So it could be saved when an method was executed by what thread.
(How much overhead would this generate?)
Questions / Possible Problems
- Do we have to modify the ClassLoaders and therefore keep them thread safe?
- Do we have to modify Java core classes?
- Which JVM implementations (e.g Sun JVM/ Sun Open JVM/ BEA JRockit/ Kaffe) can Javassist instrument or can be used on? (Is Javassist really platform independent?)
- What when Javassist does not work on a JVM?
- How to handle cascaded methods, when some in the middle are not invokedmonitored? M1>>M2>>M3>> but M2 not instrumented.
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