Memory Analysis Best Practices Within Eclipse

The performance of many enterprise Java applications can typically be poor, forcing affected companies to pay the high price of lost sales and tarnished reputations. Fortunately, proactive attention to the performance of an application while it is being developed can eliminate most performance issues before your customers ever see them.

This paper presents a strategy for identifying memory leaks in Java applications from the comfort of your Eclipse Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE). You will learn:

• How the Java garbage collector works
• The nature of memory leaks and how to avoid them
• How to configure the automated analysis of unit test case memory usage inside Eclipse
• How to regularly generate memory profiles in a repeatable fashion