Depending on your JVM, you may be able to do a "break" (Ctrl+Break on
Windows, Ctrl+Y on several Unixes) in the window running Tomcat (or any Java
application) to get a stack trace. Dunno how (or even if) it can be done on
Macs.
Failing that, you could use jdb to connect to the Tomcat process, e
Hello,
Start Java in debug mode and you will be able to see remotly what's
happening in your application thanks to a JPDA compliant IDE.
I do use the following command line for Resin with Sun JDK 1.3.1 and NT4SP6
and it works well :
java -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=
