AS-GC: An efficient generational garbage collector for java application servers

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

Volumn 4609 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 126-150

  Xian, Feng ^a   Srisa an, Witawas ^a   Jia, ChengHuan ^a   Jiang, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; SERVERS;

GENERATIONAL COLLECTION; MEMORY EXHAUSTION; REMOTE REQUESTS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 38149029255     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-73589-2_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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