Java Memory Management (Udemy.com)

Informative! Descriptions of stack and heap are thorough. Examples range from simple / high level then drill down to more detailed. Useful information about Garbage Collection and what to avoid: gc() and finalize(). I would like to see more discussion on how memory looks with multiple threads (it is mentioned each gets its own stack, but share the heap). More info will help down the road when learning multithreaded programming and race conditions / sharing data. I really liked the tools introduced (JVisualVM and the memory analyzer) and especially how these work together to look at heap dumps and identify code creating memory leaks. I would not say this course makes me an "expert", but it gives me a good overall picture and a working toolkit on which to build. I do admit, I did (could) not run the last example an d just watched the discussion. My problem was I already had Tomcat installed. I am learning and was afraid this course's Tomcat would conflict with mine. I tried to get the sample to modify Catalina.bat and run with my version and got 404 Not Found. Perhaps some comments on whether it is safe to have both versions of Tomcat would be helpful. I am planning to do some more leaning on this and return and complete the example. Thanks for all the effort on this very good course.

The course exceeds my expectation ! The tutor uses simply java code example along with stack/heap diagrams to explain how java memory allocation and garbage collection work. It's easy to understand even for students without computer science background like me. I am really satisfied.

Course is good, But should have added about Java8 as it came long time back.Expected a few more like:Java 8 additionsAs it is all related to memory mgmt, it should have talked more about Heap dump(different ways of collecting), and thread dumps analysis.

Content is good, although its really informative and takes us through memory management quite in detail, I felt that some of the areas could have been more deeply explained.

Great course! I learn a lot on this course! As a college student enhancing knowledge about programming for me this is a good subject to understand and will help you for your future projects. I'm thankful to Mr. Matt the instructor on this course, he is one of the best Udemy instructors guiding you step-by-step with clear presentation and explanation.Thanks!

The knowledge is great, and the examples is simple to understandBut the script "cc" sometimes is not right, we need to update it ?In the beginning, I am bad at English, especially listening.And the script "cc" is too bad. That why now I am good at listening now (not good but enough to understand)I don't know that is a bug or features ?

The course gave me the information I was looking for. As a java developer I knew how to accomplish things in a way that I thought was best. This course has given me some things to consider as I code going forward to make my applications more memory efficient. I hit one snag with the provided tomcat version and the java version i was running on my machine; jdk 1.8.0_144. Running the application with the provided version I got the error "The type java.io.ObjectInputStream cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files". Going to the tomcat website, downloading the tomcat version 7.0.96, and using that in place of the provided version solved the issue.

Actually I want some more scenarios or examples to analyze memory leaks. More code examples where developers make common mistakes. Otherwise whatever is covered in the course is also valuable.

It could have been better if following topics would have been included1) JVM architecture ( class loader sub-system , Runtime area , Execution engine etc )2) More details explanation on how each GC algo works3) Application profiling and GC dumps on Production , as JDK is usually not installed on Production env .4) More about (in the market) profiling tools

This course is about very basic stuff. Almost any Java book for beginners will have this kind of information. The first half of the course is especially basic and the last half is a bit more interesting, although material is rather simple. The course description should explicitly state that it targets beginners and not Java professionals. Also the first video in Section 7 duplicates all other videos in that section.

Videos are rushed, I just see half complete programs instead of starting them on the screen.

Overall, the course was not bad. However, I think there's some room for improvement:1. Upgrade the course to a more recent version of Java.2. The content in chapter 7 is duplicated.3. Maybe it's because of the topic, but overall I had the feeling that this course was a little bit too "superficial", only touching the surface at times and it was over as soon as it started to get interesting.For example, the most interesting chapter (for me) was "Hunting for a real world memory leak". Actually, I bought this course because we had a *real* real-world memory leak in our company and now I know from experience that a *real* real-world memory leak definitely doesn't look so simple as presented in the demo application. Actually, it's even hard to read and interpret the stacktraces from the thread dump.Moreover, there was a switch from standalone Java applications (as previously used throughout the course) to a Java Web application on an application-server, the introduction of a load testing tool and the interpretation of the heap dump ("we can not really see that it works now because Tomcat uses thread pools") - all this in 24 minutes.Maybe there are also other techniques for detecting memory leaks such as using static code analysis?