Thread at wait() state , shared data (volatile? confused ;/ )

i have a thread that has just called notifyAll(); wait();
is it possible to find out on what method was the wait() executed?

e.g.
threads a,b,c

1 thread b has 2 synchronized methods.
2 thread a calls one of the two methods of b
3 thread c gets notified from thread b
4 thread c must be able to know what method did call the notify

constraints: i am trying to avoid having a silly variable in thread b ( eg String method = "method 1")

btw something irrelevant, don't you think is a bit strange creating a new thread to ask about threads?:D

other than interrupting (killing) the waiting thread to get a stack trace, or before doing the notify throw/catch an exception to print the stack trace - but this only fetches it for a log out put to be read, not communicates it to the other thread to see it.

i think you would need to create a threadsafe state variable some place that could be read (e.g. a stack structure that you maintain with method entry and exit) - bonus points if you use aspect oriented programming patterns to apply this as advice to methods in your threads. at least that way it would not be a variable in thread b. but still a variable some place.

It sort of sounds like you're trying to implement the observer pattern indirectly. Maybe there's a good reason you're trying to do this, but if not, you might want to read up on the observer pattern wiki.

thank you for your replies , those were the ways i tried to avoid, i'll stick to the observer, the point is that thread b is compiled after the program is run and its a bit of a mess. It seems i'll have to do it with observer or an ungly static var :D

here it is
int x = new Exception().getStackTrace()[0].getLineNumber();

my point was to track what line of code is the thread stoped at i thought there would be a way that the thread could tell. i know i wansn't too accurate, i try my posts to be a bit generic to help other users too

better way, the first element found, is the line that caused interrupted exception

Code:

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StackTraceElement[] elements = myThread.getStackTrace();
for(StackTraceElement ele:elements)
{
      if(ele.toString().contains(className))
                System.out.println(ele.getLineNumber()); // first element matching here
}

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