Key takeaways include that less than 30% of applications remain on Java 8, Oracle continues to lose ground to the OpenJDK vendors, and using relatively small heap sizes ... use by 76.4%, JBoss ...

I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally multiple gigs in size. They contain so much information that identifying the cause of a JVM memory leak ...

an object reference is created in Java’s memory heap. This lets us modify objects using their reference variables. See my InfoWorld article, Does Java pass by reference or pass by value?

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Heap dump is a snapshot of the Java memory. It contains information about the Java objects and ...