By default (Java 1.6 or greater), the JVM will output, at most, 1024 lines of the stack trace.
In the situation where you have some recursion problem or some infinite loop that results in a stack overflow error you will need to increase this value with a JVM option to see the origin of your crash.
To do so, add the following option to the java command
$ java -XX:MaxJavaStackTraceDepth=-1 -jar some.jar some.package.Class etc, etc,-1 indicates no limit. Any positive integer indicates the limit to the number of lines in the stack trace. 0 means exactly what it means and will output 0 lines.