More articles by Tony Printezis

Author Bio

Tony Printezis recently joined the development team of the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine at Sun Microsystems, after more than three years at SunLabs. He spends most of his time working on dynamic memory management, concentrating on the scalability, responsiveness, parallelism, and visualization of garbage collectors.

How to Handle Java Finalization's Memory-Retention Issues

For Java Zone | December 27, 2005

Finalization allows you to perform postmortem cleanup on Java objects, but it can delay the reclamation of resources, even if you do not use it explicitly. Learn how to avoid such memory-retention problems.

Garbage Collection in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine

For Java Zone | September 17, 2004

Gain a better understanding of how garbage collection in the Java HotSpot VM works, and learn to take full advantage of it when designing, developing, and deploying your Java applications.

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