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 ...

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 ...

Java currently supports only primitive types and object references. Project Valhalla extends this by introducing inline classes which are new types that exhibit some behaviors of both types of value.

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design By Leonard Slipp February 5, 2001 ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management ...

The Java Function interface is quite simple. It takes a single Java object as an argument, and returns a single Java object when the method concludes. Any method you can conjure up takes an object and ...

However, as a Java developer, this approach appeals to me because it is the most like Java (and other class-based object-oriented languages).

When the Java language was created, Sun engineers decided that developers should not be responsible for managing the memory used by the objects they create. Instead, a garbage collection routine would ...

Java’s inbuilt concept of serialization, does all this for you, for the very objects created by your application that are still in memory.

More importantly, Reinhold, announced Oracle’s decision to improve Java’s security by changing the way Java handles object serialization.