You might know that Java passes by value, but it helps to understand why. Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow ...

Copying objects is a common Java programming operation that has one serious trap. Here's how to avoid copying from an object reference and only copy the instance and values you want.

When you create a new object in Java,aClass a = new aClass();memory is dynamically allocated on the process's heap to store the object instance. A reference to this object is created on the stack ...

If this option is passed then only the live objects in the heap are dumped. If your application is running with a large memory size then typically it would take a long time to capture the heap dump ...

JVM heap analysis with Java Flight Recorder. Here’s how the Java Flight Recorder’s Old Object Sample event works. When a recording is started, a fixed number of objects from the Java heap are tracked.