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.

Although automatic garbage collection solves the main cause of memory leaks, they can remain in a Java program. Specifically, such memory leaks in complex multitiered applications can be extremely ...

When the Java language was created, Sun engineers decided that developers should not be responsible for managing the memory used by the objects they create. Instead, a garbage collection routine would ...

Memory alignment does matter (as shown, for example, for primitive array types in Java Tip 130), but I think it is unprofitable to chase after such low-level details.

Automatic Leak Detection: For applications in production, AppDynamics 3.0 provides real-time monitoring of Java heaps and garbage collection to automatically detect memory leaks as they happen.

Azure jaz: Automatic memory and startup optimization for Java in the cloud The new Microsoft tool for the Azure cloud aims to improve launch times for Java applications and thus reduce cloud costs.

In Turkey, a group of five engineers developed an elegant solution to tackle one of the biggest challenges for Java developers. This solution, dubbed Hazelcast, is designed to prevent enterprise ...