Quest Software recently released JProbe 8.0, a Java code, memory, and coverage profiler. While JProbe has been one of the leading Java profiling tools since the late 1990's, JProbe 8.0 aims to ...

Want a heap dump? Check out the jmap (Java memory map) and jhat (Java heap analysis tool) shipped with Hotspot-based JVMs (Sun, OpenJDK). Looking for a bit more?

For purposes of this post, I have created two heap dumps on two totally separate applications using the Oracle JDK-provided jmap (Java Memory Map) tool to attach to the processes’s Java PIDs and ...

It uses Java's capabilities to memory map the input file for the most efficient direct memory access.

Pop quiz: Do you know what annotation metadata is? If you’re like most coders, you don’t—and that has been okay, says Graeme Rocher, creator of Java application frameworks, including Grails ...