Figure 1 is a heap usage chart provided by JProbe. It gives a runtime summary of the heap memory in use over time as the Java EE application runs. The green area indicates the heap usage. The ...

Troubleshooting Java memory problems can be tricky. In this article, we discuss the proper approach for locating them, and we take a look at a wide range of tools we can use to eradicate them.

When those memory areas are no longer needed, the programmer must remember to deallocate them. When memory is allocated, but not deallocated, a memory leak occurs (the memory has leaked out of the ...

Java Doesn’t Have to Be Heavy “People often think Java means heavyweight,” Rocher says, but that reputation has more to do with the APIs and tools that the JVM provides to build frameworks.