Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements ...

The Java automatic garbage collection process typically operates as a low-priority thread that constantly searches memory for unreachable objects, objects not referenced by any other object ...

Instrumentation: querying the memory usage of a Java object provides a nice overview of this interface and provides a link to the Classmexer agent, “a simple Java instrumentation agent that ...