[etmerritt33]

I’m a recent convert to Eclipse and absolutely love it. I also have a mainframe programming background from years ago. One of the things that has frustrated me with Java is that a class can have many entry points dependent upon how many methods are involved. When looking at modifying an existing Java application or adding new functionality, it is very useful to be able to quickly understand the basic flow and which classes and methods are being invoked end to end (without having to use the step over function in the debugger). Is there an easy way to accomplish this within Eclipse without having to set breakpoints for each method in every class that has potential to be invoked????? What I would really like to have is the union of all the stack traces which would show each method invokation in sequence end to end for a web app. Hope this makes sense. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. This has been a significant frustration for me in the object environment since I started several years ago.

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to OT > Soft Dev.

etmerrit, you want to look for “code comprehension” tools, there is nothign like that in Eclipse out of the box, but there are a handful of tools out there than can help with this.

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