Question

I was wondering if there is a way to know the method name being executed at run time?

For instance, inside a private void doSomething (String s) method, I’d like to know that I am executing the doSomething (String s) method.

Answer 1

Since JDK1.5, you don’t need an Exception to get the StackTrace,
you can get it with Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()]:

   public class Test2 {
     public static void main(String args[]) {
        new Test2().doit();
     }
     public void doit() {
        System.out.println(
           Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[1].getMethodName()); // output : doit
     }
   }