Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

A standard mechanism for managing resources such as memory and network bandwidth in Java applications is advancing through the Java Community Process. Java Specification Request 284, which features an ...

Workloads are increasingly architected as highly distributed components that may be executing on physical, virtual or cloud environments. Discovering and fixing performance issue can become an almost ...

Sun Microsystems Laboratories (Sun Labs) is working on a research effort to address issues with the memory footprint, startup and execution times when running multiple Java applications concurrently.

Memory management is central to every program. Dangling pointers due to improper memory management procedures are among the banes of C and C++. Automatic free memory management, or garbage collection, ...