java log控制台输出到文件,如何将Java控制台输出传递给文件？

I found a bug in an application that completely freezes the JVM. The produced stacktrace would provide valuable information for the developers and I would like to retrieve it from the Java console. When the JVM crashes, the console is frozen and I cannot copy the contained text anymore.

Is there way to pipe the Java console directly to a file or some other means of accessing the console output of a Java application?

Update: I forgot to mention, without changing the code. I am a manual tester.

Update 2: This is under Windows XP and it's actually a web start application. Piping the output ofjavaws jnlp-url does not work (empty file).

解决方案

Actually one can activate tracing in the Java Control Panel. This will pipe anything that ends up in the Java console in a tracing file.

The log files will end up in:

/.java/deployment/log on Unix/Linux

\Sun\Java\Deployment\log on Windows

/~/Library/Caches/Java/log on OS X