Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements quickly ...

Whereas Java and several other programming languages have a wide and rich range of datatypes and collections types, JavaScript only has a small number of primitive datatypes (Boolean, Number, String, ...

ONE OF THE key objectives early in the design of Java was to create an environment that eliminated the memory management problems (such as buffer overruns, de-referencing invalid pointers, and memory ...

Most Java developers who come from a C/C++ background have probably at one time wished for a Java equivalent of sizeof(). Although Java lacks a true sizeof() equivalent, the Instrumentation interface ...

Remote Method Invocation (RMI) is an application programming interface (API) in the Java programming language and development environment. It allows objects on one computer or Java Virtual Machine ...

How does one measure the performance penalty imposed by a compiler and execution environment on a program for using the data abstractions? In this article, I present the Data Abstraction Penalty (DAP) ...