This “smarter choice” of the garbage collector is generally better but is not always the best. For the user who wants to make their own choice of garbage collectors, this document will provide information on which to base that choice. This will first
"F3 attempts to demonstrate that we're not exploiting the full capabilities of the Java platform for GUI development and that together with supporting tools like F3, the Java platform is highly competitive with or superior to competing GUI development."
Is your Java-based application fully using the capabilities of the IBM eServer hardware it's running on? In this article, the author shows how to find out whether garbage collection, the task carried out by Java Virtual Machine in the background to reclai
The application server, being a Java process, requires a Java virtual machine (JVM) to run, and to support the Java applications running on it. As part of configuring an application server, you can fine-tune settings that enhance system use of the JVM.
This article introduces some of the important performance tuning issues for the IBM JVM for Linux on iSeries and pSeries. At the time of this writing, IBM provides JDK 1.3.1 32-bit and JDK 1.4.1, in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, for Linux on IBM iSeries
Vendor asking for community input on how to balance open source with preventing fragmentation Tom Sanders at JavaOne in San Francisco, vnunet.com 16 May 2006
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