Hotspot JVM

Recently, some new versions of java were made available. Most people think Java updates are boring and only security-oriented. But one of the last updates (7u40) includes a feature which deserves attention. I mean Java Mission Control 5.2. Hotspot incoming If you know the Oracle JRockit JVM a little bit, you might have heard about JMC, which was called JRockit… 

You might know that there are many JVMs available today, but do you know the difference between them? In this blog I will not state all JVMs as it will take too much time 🙂 But I will talk about Hotspot and JRockit, because they are pretty used and because they will eventually merge in Java 8! That’s what they…