What is the Thread.dumpStack() function in Java?

Thread.dumpStack() is a static method in Java used to debug the faulty code. This function prints the stack trace of a recent thread to the standard error stream.

Syntax

static void dumpStack()

Return value

No value is returned by this function.

Example

The code below shows the use of dumpStack().

// Load Thread class

import java.lang.Thread*;

// Main class

public class EdPresso {

   // main method

   public static void main(String[] args) {

      Thread thread = Thread.currentThread();

      th.setName("Main Thread");

      // setting the priority of thread to 1

      thread.setPriority(1);

      // printing the recent thread

      System.out.println("Thread = " + thread);

      int threadCount = Thread.activeCount();

      System.out.println("The threads that are active currently = " + threadCount);

      /* printing current thread's stack trace to the standard

         error stream used to debug*/

      Thread.dumpStack();

   }

}

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