Because there are limitations in the Java instrumentation strategy, initial calls to this() or super() will appear as a sibling to the constructor call, rather than as a child. See the following example:
class A { public A() { this(0); } public A(int i) { } } and: class B { public static void test() { new A(); } } The call tree will look like this: B.test() -A.<init>(int) -A.<init>() Rather than this: B.test() -A.<init>() -A.<init>(int) |