As part of Oracle's ongoing project to merge the HotSpot and JRockit codebases, Oracle has announced that they will remove PermGen from the Java 8 version of the HotSpot JVM. The effects of the ...

A heap dump is a snapshot of what’s in your Java program’s memory at a given point in time. It contains details about objects that are present in memory, actual data that is present within those ...

While a developer can't specifically force Java garbage collection, they can ask the JVM to prioritize the process. If developers need the JVM to free up some heap space, here are five ways to ...