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soklay <icost@singnet.com.sg> wrote in article
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> Anyone knows whether there any way to know who is/are the 
> caller(s) of a method during run-time? In a method, I would 
> like to get hold of the string name of the class and method 
> which calls it. Else, is it possible to, in a method, get hold 
> if the name of itself and the name of the class it is declared 
> in at run-rime?

I can think of one way that would work, but you definitely would not want
to use this for "normal" programming:

	Throwable t = new Throwable();
	t.fillInStackTrace();

	StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
	t.printStackTrace( writer );

	String str = writer.toString();

This will create a string containing a stack trace.  You could then parse
the stack trace to find out who the caller was.  Obviously it would not be
a good idea to write your application this way.  But for debugging, the
approach could be useful.

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