Java Garbage Collection remains a topic of major interest even after 25 years. Many developers are still confused about the fundamentals, even of the most widely-used implementation (Parallel).

Generational garbage collectors tend to operate in two distinct collection cycles: Minor collections, where short-lived objects are collected, and the less frequent Major collections, where the ...

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.1 introduces three new garbage collection algorithms, effectively doubling the number that existed in J2SE 1.4.0.

The limit on the size of JVMs imposed by GC has long been a major challenge for Enterprise Java apps. Anne MacFarland, senior contributing analyst at the Clipper Group, called the addon "a step ...

Learn how C4’s concurrently compacting garbage collection algorithm helps boost Java scalability for low-latency enterprise Java applications, in this installment of Eva Andreasson’s JVM ...

BigMemory is able to make the legitimate claim that it avoids the JVM's garbage collection cycle, because it doesn't use the JVM for memory management. However, it's arguable that maybe it should. The ...

NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia , Feb. 3, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Excelsior LLC, a well-established vendor of compliant Java SE technology implementations, has shipped today the newest version of its flagship product ...