A useful testing technique to find deadlocks related to invokeAndWait

Tom Hawtin writes about a deadlock he found in jedit 4.2. As he says: There was, however, a use of invokeAndWait. Sure enough the EDT was waiting on monitor locked by the thread calling invokeAndWait.

What's most interesting is a class he provides to help one automatically find those situations. It relies on a Mustang ability provided through the JMX support to query all held locks. The code looks to see if the Event Dispatch Thread is called with a parent stack frame in invokeAndWait, and then checks the locks. Really cool.