How to connect to JVM to log all accesses to internal memory?

Question

Java

For a research project (I’ll say right away that it’s not reverse engineering), you need to log all calls of an application written in Java to its internal memory. Is there some API like hooks in Windows?

Answer 1

JVMTI

Answer 2

Dig in the direction of Java profiling (jmap, jhat, visalvm, etc.)
True, you will have to rake a lot there.

Answer 3

For all debugger-like purposes, Oracle recommends JDI: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/jpda/jdi/