Hello folks,

I have just downloaded an open-source project in java and i am trying to
understand it and analyse it, in order to use it for my own work. For
this purpose I just want to observe how the program behaves during
runtime (i.e. which objects are instantiated, which methods are
called...). I am using the eclipse 3.2 IDE. The debugger of eclipse
seems to be not very appropriate for such task.

I have two fundamental questions: is my proceeding to understand the
open source project the right one? And if yes how can I observe with the
help of eclipse which parts of the program are being - during the
runtime - activated? I have also been thinking of extracting UML
diagrams form the program, but the 1st approach seems to me to be the
more pragmatic one.

Any hint will be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Amir

P.S.: I aopologize if this is not the right forum for my problem and
would be thankful if you can tell be about mor convenient one!