Patent 7395528 was granted and assigned to Sun Microsystems on July, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method for tracing an instrumented program on a system during booting, including loading object code defining enabling information into a property file associated with a tracing framework, rebooting the system, processing the property file to enable the tracing framework, wherein enabling the tracing framework comprises creating an anonymous consumer state, and tracing the instrumented program using the enabled tracing framework.