Java’s String class encapsulates an array ... Returns a canonical representation for the string object. * * A pool of strings, initially empty, is maintained privately by the * class {@code ...

I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally multiple gigs in size. They contain so much information that identifying the cause of a JVM memory leak ...

This blog posting looks at how VisualVM can be used to generate and analyze a heap dump in a manner similar to that done with command-line tools jmap and jhat. The jmap (Java Memory Map ...