Obviously, the example in the memory leak detection example is a simple one. To identify offending objects in a more complicated example, follow these memory leak detection best practices: Run Java ...

This is a little example project that consumes memory in Java in several ways to help demonstrate investigating memory leaks in Java for a presentation I gave on that topic. Definitely do not look at ...

If you’re still not sure how this works, consider the following diagram: Rafael Del Nero Passing primitive types in Java. Like object types, primitive types are also passed by value.