Summary

This chapter took a deep look at the complexities of managing memory effectively to help prevent memory leaks. These leaks must be avoided at all costs because they can degrade our systems, ruin the user experience, and even result in system crashes. We identified that memory leaks typically occur due to improper referencing, which inhibits the garbage collector’s ability to deallocate memory. We focused on proper referencing, listeners and loaders, and caching and threads. You should now be equipped and confident to implement efficient memory leak avoidance strategies in your Java applications.

In the next chapter, Concurrency Strategies, we will cover the concepts of threads, synchronization, volatile, atomic classes, locks, and so on. We will leverage the thread-related content covered in this chapter to give us a head start as we dive deeper into concurrency. Through a hands-on approach, you can gain insights into concurrency in Java and adopt strategies to help...