Can I cheaply call a Java method to get the current method's name?

Question

Basically I have a logging statement inside of a method. Whenever the method is called, I want to easily call the name of the method, and append it to the logging statement. This is done to minimize the number of hard coded lines in my application. Is this possible to do it cheaply?

Answer 1

No, not cheaply. The expensive and only way of doing it is with a StackTrace method call. Best to just hardcode it.