Java memory limitations and garbage collection problems “are long-term issues and Java shops have learned to work around them using manual testing and tuning techniques,” said Matthew Aslett ...

I hope that learning about these different approaches to garbage collection will expand your sense of what is possible with Java’s memory-management model and with Java application scalability.

Automatic free memory management, or garbage collection, is inherent to platforms like Java and Microsoft’s .NET. In the latter, “managed” applications like those written in C# utilize ...