Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements ...

Although Java lacks a true sizeof () equivalent, the Instrumentation interface introduced with J2SE5 can be used to get an estimate of the size of a particular object via its getObjectSize (Object ...

Those Java developers, designers, and J2EE architects who work on systems that must store data in relational or object databases, or other storage media should read this article.

Loitering Objects and Java Framework Design By Leonard Slipp February 5, 2001 ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management ...

Java’s inbuilt concept of serialization, does all this for you, for the very objects created by your application that are still in memory.

All of Java's I/O facilities are based on streams that represent flowing sequences of characters or bytes. Java's I/O streams provide standardized ways to read and write data. Any object ...

The Java Function interface is quite simple. It takes a single Java object as an argument, and returns a single Java object when the method concludes. Any method you can conjure up takes an object and ...

More importantly, Reinhold, announced Oracle’s decision to improve Java’s security by changing the way Java handles object serialization.