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java-callgraph: Java Call Graph Utils

A suite of programs for generating static and dynamic call graphs in Java.

javacg-static: Reads classes from a jar file, walks down the method bodies and prints a table of caller-caller relationships.
javacg-dynamic: Runs as a Java agent and instruments the methods of a user-defined set of classes in order to track their invocations. At JVM exit, prints a table of caller-callee relationships.

Compile

The java-callgraph package is build with maven. Install maven and do:


mvn install

This will produce a target directory with two jars

Examples

The following examples instrument the Dacapo benchmark suite to produce dynamic call graphs. The Dacapo benchmarks come in a single big jar archive that contains all dependency libraries. To build the boot class path required for the javacg-dyn program, extract the dacapo.jar to a directory: all the required libraries can be found in the jar directory.


java 
    -Xbootclasspath:/System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Classes/classes.jar:jar/batik-all.jar:jar/xml-apis-ext.jar 
    -javaagent:target/javacg-0.1-SNAPSHOT-dycg-agent.jar="incl=org.apache.batik.*,org.w3c.*;" 
    -jar dacapo-9.12-bach.jar batik -s small

Known Restrictions

The static call graph generator does not account for methods invoked via reflection.

Author

Georgios Gousios gousiosg@gmail.com

License

2-clause BSD