With the recent announcement of JDK Enhancement Project (JEP) 188, now seems like a good time to brush up on what you know about the Java memory model. Authored by Doug Lea, JEP 188 proposes the ...

It’s only when the application gets pushed to production do they realize, 'Hold on, this needs a gigabyte of memory to run,'" he says. While Java applications have mainly been managed at runtime ...