Cleaning noise out of Java stack traces

eclipse has a preference Stack trace filter patterns (look at java > junit or search for stacktrace in the preferences). You can ignore packages (also with wildcards), classes or methods. Does work for direct Test calls (via Run as junit Test), not for commandline runs like ant or maven.

intellij-idea allows customizable stack trace folding, especially useful with dynamic languages.

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and an Analyzing external stack traces tool.

I can imagine general tool/filter working on logging framework (like logback or log4j) level. I don't think there is any general support for that, but I think it is a great idea to implement this. I will have a look, maybe it is not that much work.

UPDATE: I implemented filtering irrelevant stack trace lines in logs for logback, also follow LBCLASSIC-325.