A proposal promoting asynchronous stack traces in Java is advancing through the OpenJDK’s Java enhancement process.. The plan, Asynchronous Stack Trace VM API, would define an AsyncGetStackTrace ...

For example, Throwables.getRootCause(Throwable) returns the exception that is often most important (see Tips #2 and #3 in Ten Tips for Using Java Stack Traces) in a chain (the “innermost” or ...