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Jeff Kish · Guest

Hi.
I posted this to comp.lang.java.programmer yesterday, and I'm looking
for a bit more feedback.

I'm still relatively new to java.
I am trying to analyze and figure out on my own how a
proprietary frameworks 'works'.

It is event driven, and I tried putting a bunch of System.out.println
statements in, but:
1 - because (i come from c++ background) there are no destructors I
don't know for sure when things 'go away'
2 - everytime (it is still being developed) I get a bunch of debug in,
I use it for a day or two (yes it takes me that long to figure out
stuff .. my memory is kind of overloading) and then I have to get a
new version and put everything in all over again.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to go about analyzing this?
I find there are a hand full of objects (session, etc) that have a
handful of important methods (handleTheEvent(...) etc) that are worth
logging.

I'd like to be able to output to a log file of some sort information
so I can play back a visualization of the events as they are fired and
handled by objects and their descendents.

I hope this isn't too much. I appreciate any thoughts.

thanks
Jeff