Today David R. MacIver pinged me in #scala and asked “headius: Presumably you guys have spent quite a lot of time trying to make things like system(“vim”) work correctly in JRuby and failing? i.e. I’m ...

The Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a vital part of modern distributed computing. It is the platform of big data applications like Spark, HDFS, Cassandra,and Hive. While the JVM provides “write once, ...

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Since J2SE 5, Platform MBeans have been available that allow some key characteristics regarding the JVM to be monitored and (even managed in some cases) via JMX. In addition, many JVM-based ...

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