LeakBot: An automated and lightweight tool for diagnosing memory leaks in large Java applications

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2743, Issue , 2003, Pages 351-377

  Mitchell, Nick ^a   Sevitsky, Gary ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

JAVA APPLICATIONS; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; MEMORY LEAKS; OBJECT REFERENCE; PRODUCTION MACHINES; RANKING ANALYSIS; USER ASSISTANCE; WHOLE PROCESS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 35248848478     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-45070-2_16     Document Type: Article

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