With the release of VisualVM as a standard part of Sun’s JDK distribution since JDK 6 Update 7, it is likely that Java developers will begin using VisualVM in situations in which they previously used ...

Thomas Dullien discusses how language design choices impact performance, how Google's monorepo culture and Amazon's two-pizza-team culture impact code efficiency, and why statistical variance is an ...

We have some use-cases where we install JRE along JDK (mainly to minimize the usage of JDK where it is not needed). We do, however, bundle JRE inside the JDK folder (same version) so it's a bit easier ...

The Birds of a Feather session “Monitoring and Troubleshooting Java Platform Applications with JDK Software” was led by Mandy Chung and Tomas Hurka. Each of these Sun employees possesses the ...

I'm trying to use latest VisualVM on one of my app that uses JDK21 along with Generational ZGC. If I use the Generational ZGC flag the max heap size is double than what I specified in the XMX flag. If ...