equivalent of __FUNCTION__ of C lanauage in Java

Question

Hi ,

For debug purpose, I want to print out current executing function name in Java. If it were C, I would just do printf("%s \n" ,__FUNCITON__).

Answer 1

new Exception().getStackTrace()[0].getMethodName();

Answer 2

I'd use one of the logging frameworks (logback with slf4j is probably the best one at the moment, but log4j should suffice), then you can specify a layout that will print the method name logback layout documentation here