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As heap utilization approaches 100% and the inevitable OutOfMemoryError threatens to crash the production JVM, DevOps professionals who tend real-time Java ...

Tackling memory limitations imposed on Java applications, Terracotta on Tuesday will offer what it describes as a breakthrough in solving the “universal problem” of Java garbage collection. The ...

Section 8.1.3 of the Java Language Specification (JLS) states, “The class java.lang.Object … is the primordial class and has no direct superclass.” That means java.lang.Object serves as the root class ...