Capturing the first invocation of a method

[Tim Bell]

Harry Yale wrote:

> [...] I need to capture first
> invocations of methods
> on-the-fly internally in the VM code rather than externally from the
> debugger or after-the-fast in the log.

I'm not sure writing a JVM TI agent would qualify as 'in the VM'.  I hope so.  It would be 
running in the same address space.  Take a look here:

   http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/jvm_ti/

Search for 'ClassFileLoadHook', 'BCI', 'java_crw_demo'

HTH - Tim