What is a path analysis?
Some options, namely the options -split, -errorFile, and -entryPointFile, will initiate a path analysis of the analyzed application. The path analysis will follow java methods and instantiate objects and to approximate the flow of execution at runtime. The path analysis is by default limited to the internal classes, but it can be extended to all classes loaded by using -followExternal, including the JVM classes, although this may require a considerable amount of memory and time.