In the days when processor speeds were struggling upward through the tens of megahertz, interpreted and intermediate-code implementations were rarely considered candidates for large-scale applications ...

For those running Java applications or services, the Windows Performance Monitor (WPM) contains a treasure trove of valuable information—see Figure 1. There are hundreds (or thousands) of performance ...

Recent articles on TheServerSide.com have discussed some of the challenges of troubleshooting and debugging Java code, much of which has focused around the futility of working with the de facto tool ...

Troubleshooting application problems in virtual environments requires a new approach -- and often a new set of tools. The added abstraction between virtual machines (VMs) and physical hardware can ...

JDK 5.0 and JDK 6.0 include the Java Monitoring & Management Console tool, also known as JConsole. Read about JConsole's usage options, and find out how JConsole changed from JDK 5 to JDK 6. In ...