Debugging Memory Issues in Java

Having started this blog with 3 CMS-related posts, you may as well miss the fact that professionally, I am a Java developer.

So to remind you of that, I want to share something I found out about some time ago: a method for recording and analyzing the memory-related activity of a Java program, without a profiler. It requires jhat, delivered with Sun’s JVM, but on Windows only since Java 6.

Detecting memory leaks in Java SE at FitProgrammer@Work.