White Papers

Here are white papers on the following Java technologies:

Memory Management in the Java HotSpot Virtual Machine (pdf)

This paper describes the different types of garbage collectors available in the Java HotSpot virtual machine (JVM) in Sun's J2SE 5.0 release and gives advice on choosing a collector, configuration, and memory sizing.

DTrace Support for the Java Platform (pdf)

This guide shows developers how to use the Dynamic Tracing technology in the Solaris 10 Operating System to observe Java programs.

J2SE 5.0 Performance White Paper by Sun Staff

This guide gives an overview of the performance and scalability improvements made in the J2SE 5.0 release along with various benchmarks to demonstrate the impact of these improvements.

Java Platform Migration Guide (pdf)

This guide helps developers migrate Java applets, stand-alone applications, Java Web Start applications, and development tools from version 1.3 of the Java platform to version 5.0.

New Features and Enhancements J2SE 5.0

J2SE 5.0 is a major feature release. This article introduces new features since version 1.4.0.

J2SE 5.0 Name and Version Change

Concurrency Utilities Overview

Java Web Start (pdf)

Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4.2

Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

Java Advanced Imaging (JAI) API Collateral

Java 2D Technology

Security

Java Management Extensions (JMX)