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This is the weblog for Pete Finnigan. Pete works in the area of Oracle security and he specialises in auditing Oracle databases for security issues. This weblog is aimed squarely at those interested in the security of their Oracle databases.

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Interesting post in Amis about who called me

I saw an interesting post on the Amis blog posted by Lucas Jellema and titled "Who is calling me? - Analyzing the Java Callstack" this evening about finding out who is a Java class invoked the method. The trick Lucas is showing is to create a new throwable and to then inspect the stacktrace. Lucas then goes through some example code. This is a very useful post and reminds me of Tom's similar methods for finding out who called a function or procedure but for PL/SQL - in fact similarly named who_called_me. There is an example of its use on a page titled http://asktom.oracle.com/~tkyte/who_called_me/index.html - (broken link) How Can I find out who called me or what my name is and the code or who_called_me and who_am_i is available here. I have changed the links to be asktom links that I found on Tom's site as they were pointing at osi.oracle.com - which Tom told me some time ago are not valid anymore.