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 quickly ...

Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof(). Although Java lacks a true sizeof() equivalent, the Instrumentation interface ...

ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management problems (such as buffer overruns, de-referencing invalid pointers, and memory ...

Persistent Java objects simplify the storage and exchange of complex object structures. Poet Software's FastObjects j2 is a pure Java implementation of an object database management system (ODBMS). It ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. In this Java serialization example, we will use both the ObjectOutputStream and the ...