DZone
Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile
  • Manage Email Subscriptions
  • How to Post to DZone
  • Article Submission Guidelines
Sign Out View Profile
  • Post an Article
  • Manage My Drafts
Over 2 million developers have joined DZone.
Log In / Join
Refcards Trend Reports Events Over 2 million developers have joined DZone. Join Today! Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile Manage Email Subscriptions Moderation Admin Console How to Post to DZone Article Submission Guidelines
View Profile
Sign Out
Refcards
Trend Reports
Events
Zones
Culture and Methodologies Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks
Partner Zones AWS Cloud
by AWS Developer Relations
Culture and Methodologies
Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering
AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture
Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding
Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance
Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks
Partner Zones
AWS Cloud
by AWS Developer Relations
Securing Your Software Supply Chain with JFrog and Azure
Register Today

Trending

  • Tech Hiring: Trends, Predictions, and Strategies for Success
  • Deploying Smart Contract on Ethereum Blockchain
  • Strategies for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) For Integration Solutions
  • How To Use Git Cherry-Pick to Apply Selected Commits

Trending

  • Tech Hiring: Trends, Predictions, and Strategies for Success
  • Deploying Smart Contract on Ethereum Blockchain
  • Strategies for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) For Integration Solutions
  • How To Use Git Cherry-Pick to Apply Selected Commits
  1. DZone
  2. Coding
  3. Java
  4. Missing Stack Traces for Repeated Exceptions

Missing Stack Traces for Repeated Exceptions

Gerard Davison user avatar by
Gerard Davison
·
Nov. 09, 14 · Interview
Like (1)
Save
Tweet
Share
10.24K Views

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.

Join For Free

A long while ago a optimisation was added to the JVM so that if the same exception is thrown again and again and again a single instance of the Exception is created without the stack trace filled in in order to increase performance. This is an excellent idea unless you are trying to diagnose a problem and you have missed the original error.

If you forgot about this optimisation you send the afternoon looking at the following log output and weeping slightly. (In my defence I have a little one in the house hence the fuzzy brain and lack of blogging action this year)

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
...
java.lang.Exception: Uncaught exceptions during test
 at oracle.jdevstudio-testware-tests.level0.testADFcMATS(/.../work/mw9111/jdeveloper/jdev/extensions/oracle.jdevstudio-testware-tests/abbot/common-adf/CreateNewCustomAppAndProjectWithName.xml:25)
 at oracle.jdevstudio-testware-tests.level0.testADFcMATS(/.../work/mw9111/jdeveloper/jdev/extensions/oracle.jdevstudio-testware-tests/abbot/level0/testADFcMATS.xml:94)
 at oracle.abbot.JDevScriptFixture.runTest(JDevScriptFixture.java:555)
 at junit.framework.TestCase.runBare(TestCase.java:134)
 at junit.framework.TestResult$1.protect(TestResult.java:110)
 at junit.framework.TestResult.runProtected(TestResult.java:128)
 at junit.framework.TestResult.run(TestResult.java:113)
 at junit.framework.TestCase.run(TestCase.java:124)
 at junit.framework.TestSuite.runTest(TestSuite.java:243)
 at junit.framework.TestSuite.run(TestSuite.java:238)
 at junit.textui.TestRunner.doRun(TestRunner.java:116)
 at junit.textui.TestRunner.doRun(TestRunner.java:109)
 at oracle.abbot.AbbotRunner.run(AbbotRunner.java:614)
 at oracle.abbot.AbbotAddin$IdeAbbotRunner.run(AbbotAddin.java:634)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException

[Crickets]

It turns out that you can turn off this optimisation with a simple flag:

java -XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow ....

In my particular case the actual exception causing this trouble was a NPE from the GlyphView code in JDK8. (One that is being caused by a glitch in hotspot it seems) But that in turn was causing the AIOOBE in some logging code clouding the issue even more.

This in particular is a good flag to add by default when running your automated tests, particularly in combination with the stack trace length override I have talked about before.

Java (programming language) Testing HotSpot (virtual machine) Java virtual machine Brain (computer virus) House (operating system)

Published at DZone with permission of Gerard Davison, DZone MVB. See the original article here.

Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

Trending

  • Tech Hiring: Trends, Predictions, and Strategies for Success
  • Deploying Smart Contract on Ethereum Blockchain
  • Strategies for Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) For Integration Solutions
  • How To Use Git Cherry-Pick to Apply Selected Commits

Comments

Partner Resources

X

ABOUT US

  • About DZone
  • Send feedback
  • Careers
  • Sitemap

ADVERTISE

  • Advertise with DZone

CONTRIBUTE ON DZONE

  • Article Submission Guidelines
  • Become a Contributor
  • Visit the Writers' Zone

LEGAL

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

  • 600 Park Offices Drive
  • Suite 300
  • Durham, NC 27709
  • support@dzone.com

Let's be friends: