With the recent announcement of JDK Enhancement Project (JEP) 188, now seems like a good time to brush up on what you know about the Java memory model. Authored by Doug Lea, JEP 188 proposes the ...

When a tracked object on the Java heap is garbage collected, it’s removed from the sample and a new one added. Over time, objects that have causes a memory leak are more likely to get tracked. The ...

Additionally, by delivering the first low-cost algorithm for object deep size ... real-time monitoring of Java heaps and garbage collection to automatically detect memory leaks as they happen.

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