Java is a popular computing platform, but lately, Java is blamed for its security vulnerabilities. It is recommended by many to disable or completely uninstall Java. However, there are applications ...

We have some use-cases where we install JRE along JDK (mainly to minimize the usage of JDK where it is not needed). We do, however, bundle JRE inside the JDK folder (same version) so it's a bit easier ...

Java Mission Control is a performance-analysis tool that renders sampled Java Virtual Machine metrics in easy-to-understand graphs, tables, histograms, lists and charts. Originally designed to depict ...

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The best way to optimize JVM throughput and avoid runtime bottlenecks is to make Java performance profiling a key part of your team's continuous development and deployment (CI/CD) strategy. Here are ...

I attempted to open a 20GB hprof file and it took over 3.5 hours to finish processing in MAT and VisualVM. Even worse, it was unusablely slow. Just clicking on an object instance in VisualVM takes ...

The Birds of a Feather session “Monitoring and Troubleshooting Java Platform Applications with JDK Software” was led by Mandy Chung and Tomas Hurka. Each of these Sun employees possesses the ...

Although jstack (Java Stack Trace) is a useful tool for learning more about a how a Java thread is behaving, VisualVM is an even easier method for obtaining the same type of information. It is easy to ...