Tests to confirm symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) scalability of processes and Java threads on Sun hardware have revealed a serious problem in Sun's JDK 1.1.7 that can dramatically reduce the ...

JavaFX creates an application thread, which is known as the JavaFX Application Thread, for running the application’s start () and stop () methods, for processing input events, and for running ...

If an application is useful, then the network of users will grow crazily fast at some point. As more and more mission-critical applications are now running on Java EE, many Java developers are caring ...

Figure 2 Summary of resources used in an application The summary page shows the number of threads that are currently spawned in the JVM. the current and maximum heap size. It also displays garbage ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6.

Java applications can be scaled vertically (on a single system), or horizontally (across multiple systems). But to do either, you have to understand all parts of the system and software. Not doing so ...