Garbage collection provides Java memory management, reclaiming objects no longer used by a program. But Terracotta describes garbage collection as the “Achilles’ heel” of Java applications ...

Excessive object creation can be a huge problem in Java programs. Despite continuing improvements in JVM technology for memory management, the object creation and garbage collection cycle is still ...

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design By Leonard Slipp February 5, 2001 ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management ...

Memory management is an important part of managing the runtime of Java-based applications and microservices. Those interested in landing a job that involves Java performance tuning need to be able to ...

$ jcmd 7544 GC.run 5. Use JConsole or Java Mission Control Both JConsole and Java Mission Control provide a user-friendly interface that interacts with the Java diagnostic command utility, which can ...

AppDynamics just introduced version 3.0 of its application performance management product that is designed to seek out these issues in a distributed java-based environment.

Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto The National Security Agency (NSA) is urging developers to shift to memory safe languages – such as C#, Go, Java, Ruby, Rust, and Swift – to protect their code ...