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OK folks,<BR><BR>I've been scouring the Web looking for info on optimising the memory usage of Java and have come up with a few items of interest.<BR><BR>Can anyone shed any further light on a the ...

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...

In-memory caching is emerging as a viable alternative to those developing database applications that typically are used for Web-based transactions. Terracotta Inc., a rapidly growing player in that ...

Classes and objects in Java must be initialized before they are used. You’ve previously learned that class fields are initialized to default values when classes are loaded, and that objects are ...