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Java 9 High Performance

By : Mayur Ramgir, Nick Samoylov
Book Image

Java 9 High Performance

By: Mayur Ramgir, Nick Samoylov

Overview of this book

Finally, a book that focuses on the practicalities rather than theory of Java application performance tuning. This book will be your one-stop guide to optimize the performance of your Java applications. We will begin by understanding the new features and APIs of Java 9. You will then be taught the practicalities of Java application performance tuning, how to make the best use of garbage collector, and find out how to optimize code with microbenchmarking. Moving ahead, you will be introduced to multithreading and learning about concurrent programming with Java 9 to build highly concurrent and efficient applications. You will learn how to fine tune your Java code for best results. You will discover techniques on how to benchmark performance and reduce various bottlenecks in your applications. We'll also cover best practices of Java programming that will help you improve the quality of your codebase. By the end of the book, you will be armed with the knowledge to build and deploy efficient, scalable, and concurrent applications in Java.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Stack-walking APIs

Exceptions do happen, especially during development or the period of software stabilization. But in a big complex system, the chance of getting an exception is possible even in production, especially when several third-party systems are brought together and the need arises to analyze the stack trace programmatically in order to apply an automatic correction. In this section, we will discuss how it can be done.

Stack analysis before Java 9

The traditional reading of the stack trace, using objects of the java.lang.Thread and java.lang.Throwable classes, was accomplished by capturing it from the standard output. For example, we can include this line in any section of the code:

Thread.currentThread().dumpStack...